The Revolt of the Widows: The Social World of the Apocryphal Acts

by Stevan L. Davies

Book Overview

No child of this century, women's liber­ation existed as a Christian movement in the 2nd century. In this first study of the social context that produced the Apocryphal Acts, Stevan L. Davies con­tends that women wrote the Acts and that the "Acts appear to have been a striving by Christian women for both a mode of self-expression and a way to preach rebellion for the sake of sexual continence." These early rebels--called widows because...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809309580
• ISBN13: 9780809309580
• Release Date: September 1980
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"