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040			_cSt. Andrew's Theological Seminary
050			_aBS 2871 _b.D38
100	1	0	_aDavies, Stevan L., _d 1948- _eauthor
245	1	4	_aThe Revolt of the widows: _bthe social world of the apocryphal Acts / _cby Stevan L. Davies
260	0		_aCarbondale and Adwardsville : _bSouthern Illinois University Press / _cc1980.
300			_ax, 139 p. ; _c23 cm.
504			_aBibliography: p .131-134
504			_aIncludes index
505			_aThe magical world view of antiquity The apostles Women in the apocryphal acts Widows and the apocryphal acts The authorship of the Acts
520			_aWomen's liberation existed as a Christian movement in the 2nd century. In this first study of the social context that produced the Apocryphal Acts, Stevan L. Davies contends that women wrote the Acts and that the "Acts appear to have been a striving by Christian women for both a mode of self-expression and a way to preach rebellion for the sake of sexual continence." These early rebels--called widows because they left their husbands for the church--refused absolute subservience to the male hierarchy of the church. The three parts of Davies's study include an investigation of the magical world view of late 2nd-century Christendom; a close look at the people the Acts describe as new Christian converts; and a summary and analysis of the nature of the authors of the Acts. These women, like their sisters today, were seeking equal standing with men in the Christian church
650			_aBible. N.T. Apocryphal books. Acts _xCriticism, interpretation, etc.
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