Osiek, Carolyn. <br/><br/>
A woman's place :  house churches in earliest Christianity /  [manuscript] : 
Carolyn Osiek and Margaret Y. MacDonald, with Janet H. Tulloch. 
 - Minneapolis, MN :  Fortress Press,  c2006. 
 - vi, 345 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-330) and indexes. 
<br/><br/>Dutiful and less than dutiful wives -- Giving birth : labor, nursing, and care of infants in house-church communities -- Growing up in house-church communities -- Female slaves : twice vulnerable -- Ephesians 5 and the politics of marriage -- Women leaders of households and Christian assemblies -- Women leaders in family funerary banquets / Janet H. Tulloch -- Women patrons in the life of house churches -- Women as agents of expansion -- Conclusion: discovering a woman's place. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0800637774 (pbk) 0800637771 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005024274 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA575564  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>013287859  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>House churches.<br/>Sex role--Religious aspects--Christianity.<br/>Women in church work.<br/>Women in Christianity.<br/>Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BV601.85  / .O85 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>270.1/082