Women in the New Testament: Questions and Commentary

Rosie Perera

Bonnie Thurston
Wipf & Stock, 2004
978-1592445585
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1592445586

Bonnie Thurston examines the personalities, place, and power of women in the New Testament. She provides a cultural and religious context for them by briefly outlining the position of women in the Greco-Roman world. The aim is to reveal the ways in which early Christianity attempted to liberate people from oppression (particularly patriarchy), as well as to point out the places and ways in which the early Christian community compromised with the dominant society.