When Women Were Priests: Women's Leadership in the Early Church and the Scandal of Their Subordination in the Rise of Christianity by Karen Jo Torjesen
When Women Were Priests: Women's Leadership in the Early Church and the Scandal of Their Subordination in the Rise of Christianity
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Karen Jo Torjesen
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When Women Were Priests: Women's Leadership in the Early Church and the Scandal of Their Subordination in the Rise of Christianity

Women's Leadership in the Early Church and the Scandal of Th

Karen Jo Torjesen

278 pages • first pub 1993 (view editions)

nonfiction history religion informative reflective medium-paced
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This landmark book reveals not only that women were priests, bishops and prophets in early Christianity, but also how and why they were suppressed. Compelling, relevant reading.--Ms. magazine.

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