Women in the World of the Earliest Christians
Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life

Lynn H. Cohick provides a detailed look at the lives of women of antiquity from the Roman Republic and Empire, the Judaism of the era, and early Christianity. What emerges from her careful reading is a startlingly wide experience, far from the stereotypical division between mother and wife versus pr......more

An excellent reference book describing the lives of women in the various roles they played in Greco-Roman and Jewish society in and surrounding the time of the NT. It's not an exciting book. Yet Cohick with scholarly care and skill reconstructs the complex lives of women as mothers, daughters, patro......more

This is such a fascinating read! Dr. Cohick is absolutely brilliant. There are definitely sections of the book that lost me because it’s so much detail and very much an academic read, but overall I loved this book.......more

Insightful book packed full of ancient sources Dr. Cohick has produced a great book of reference to understand how women lived and interacted in their first century worlds. This book has helped me to see that much of what I thought were the roles of women are either slightly incorrect, or at least in......more

I was disappointed. The subjects are all amazing women but the story telling was boring.......more