Women and knowledge in early Christianity /

Women and knowledge in early Christianity /

Women and knowledge are interconnected in several ways in late ancient and early Christian discourses, not least because wisdom (Sophia) and spiritual knowledge (Gnosis) were frequently personified as female entities. Ancient texts deal with idealized women and use feminine imagery to describe the d...

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Other Authors: Tervahauta, Ulla.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017.

Series: Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements 144.
Vigiliae Christianae Supplements Online, Supplement 2018, ISBN: 9789004353411.

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Women in Christianity > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Gnosticism.
Women in the Bible.
Women.
Knowledge, Theory of > History.

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Call Number: BR195.W6 .W66 2017

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