Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
Summary
Women and the Genesis of Christianity condenses my two previous monographs, Women in the Ministry of Jesus and Women in the Earliest Churches, in order to make them accessible to a wider audience that is not familiar with the technical jargon of New Testament studies, or the Greek, Hebrew, and various other languages needed for New Testament research.
In order to achieve this goal I have left out a great deal of the technical discussion and detailed footnotes found in the previous two works, especially in regard to matters of textual criticism, grammatical details, and the historical plausibility of this or that narrative. Those wishing to pursue such matters are advised to consult my two monographs. Much of this work is the synthesis of the ideas of a great many people besides myself, and their work is liberally cited in the monographs. I regret having to now leave out so much of the deserved citation.
In addition, I have transliterated the Greek into English, and then explained its probable translation in the course of the discussion. Further, when citing articles or books that have Greek words in their titles, I have transliterated these as well.
In this work I intend to discuss all the crucial New Testament data involving women, but since the subject is “Women and the genesis of Christianity,” I have not gone beyond the canonical period as I did in the last chapter of Women in the Earliest Churches.
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- Women and the Genesis of Christianity , pp. xi - xviPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990