When women were priests : women's leadership in the early church and the scandal of their subordination in the rise of Christianity / Karen Jo Torjesen.

Author: Torjesen, Karen Jo, 1945-

Edition Statement:1st ed.

Imprint:[San Francisco] : HarperSanFrancisco, c1993.

Descriptionx, 278 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Note:1. Preachers, Pastors, Prophets and Patrons -- 2. Household Management and Women's Authority -- 3. Patronage and Women's Power -- 4. Public Women, Private Virtues -- 5. A Woman's Honor Is Her Shame -- 6. When the Church Goes Public -- 7. The Penetrator and the Penetrated -- 8. Sin Is a Sexually Communicable Disease -- 9. What If God Had Breasts?

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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