Download or read book Women and Christian Origins written by Ross Shepard Kraemer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-02-11 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new collection of fourteen integrated, original essays by prominent scholars and experienced teachers provides a comprehensive and accessible entree to current research on women and the origins of Christianity. Engaging for both the interested reader and the specialist in religion, Women and Christian Origins is sensitive to feminist theory and attentive to distinctions between the (re)construction of women's history in early Christian churches and ancient constructions of gender difference