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  • Gender Mobility

    7 Ideas about Gender in the New Testament Period

    by Susan E. Hylen ...
    What if our long-held understandings of gender have less historical basis than we imagine? The gender norms and sexual distinctions of the first century world that produced the New Testament were not strictly binary, as we might think. Although some ancient writers did indeed contrast male and female attributes, other social norms created considerable overlap between men and women. In Gender ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Finding Phoebe

    What New Testament Women Were Really Like

    by Susan E. Hylen ...
    Forget what you think you know about women in the early church.In this learned yet accessible book, Susan E. Hylen introduces first-century primary sources to illuminate readers' understanding of New Testament women. Perfect for clergy, spiritual reading groups, and all curious minds, Finding Phoebe combines incisive scholarship and instructional sensibility to encourage readers to develop their ... Read more

    $33.48 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women in the New Testament World

    by Susan E. Hylen ...
    Series series Essentials of Biblical Studies
    Modern readers of the New Testament often notice its varying ideas about women. Some passages encouraged women to be submissive and remain silent. Yet in others, women characters owned property, headed households, or spoke with approval. Women in the New Testament World helps readers understand this conflicting evidence. It argues that social norms of the time encouraged traditional feminine ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Modest Apostle

    Thecla and the History of Women in the Early Church

    by Susan E. Hylen ...
    Scholars and mainline pastors tell a familiar narrative about the roles of women in the early church-that women held leadership roles and exercised some authority in the church, but, with the establishment of formal institutional roles, they were excluded from active leadership. Evidence of women's leadership is either described as "exceptional" or relegated to (so-called) heretical groups, who ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Women in the New Testament World

    by Susan E. Hylen ...
    Narrated by Susan Hanfield ...
    Series series Essentials of Biblical Studies

    Unabridged

    7 hours 7 min

    Modern readers of the New Testament often notice its varying ideas about women. Some passages encouraged women to be submissive and remain silent. Yet in others, women characters owned property, headed households, or spoke with approval. Women in the New Testament World helps readers understand this conflicting evidence. It argues that social norms of the time encouraged traditional feminine ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • John

    by Gail R. O'Day, Susan E. Hylen ...
    Series series Westminster Bible Companion
    The Gospel of John is one of the most beloved books in the Christian canon. Its stories and images have long captured the imaginations of Christians. Not only is it one of the most popular writings of the New Testament, but many aspects of its style and outlook are distinctive. In this clear, thorough, and accessible commentary on the Gospel of John, scholars Gail O'Day and Susan Hylen explore and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Women in the World of the Earliest Christians

    Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life

    by Lynn Cohick ...
    Lynn Cohick provides an accurate and fulsome picture of the earliest Christian women by examining a wide variety of first-century Jewish and Greco-Roman documents that illuminate their lives. She organizes the book around three major spheres of life: family, religious community, and society in general. Cohick shows that although women during this period were active at all levels within their ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • God's Ghostwriters

    Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible

    by Candida Moss ...
    From an award-winning biblical scholar, the story of how enslaved people created, gave meaning to, and spread the message of the New Testament, shaping the very foundations of Christianity in ways both subtle and profound.For the past two thousand years, Christian tradition, scholarship, and pop culture have credited the authorship of the New Testament to a select group of men: Matthew, Mark, Luke ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Who Is This Man?

    The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus

    by John Ortberg ...
    The day after Jesus' death, whatever small mark he made on the world seemed destined to disappear. Instead, his impact on human history has been unparalleled, leading believers and nonbelievers alike to ask, Who Is This Man?In Who Is This Man, bestselling author John Ortberg explores the paradox of Jesus, history's most familiar figure while simultaneously the man no one knows. Who Is This Man ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • From Shame to Sin

    by Kyle Harper ...
    The transformation of the Roman world from polytheistic to Christian is one of the most sweeping ideological changes of premodern history. At the center was sex. Kyle Harper examines how Christianity changed the ethics of sexual behavior from shame to sin, and shows how the roots of modern sexuality are grounded in an ancient religious revolution. ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Triumph of Christianity

    How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

    by Bart D. Ehrman ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Miquoting Jesus comes the “marvelous” (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot) story of how Christianity became the dominant religion in the West.How did a religion whose first believers were twenty or so illiterate day laborers in a remote part of the empire became the official religion of Rome, converting some thirty million people in just four ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Roman Disasters

    by Jerry Toner ...
    Roman Disasters looks at how the Romans coped with, thought about, and used disasters for their own ends. Rome has been famous throughout history for its great triumphs. Yet Rome also suffered colossal disasters. From the battle of Cannae, where fifty thousand men fell in a single day, to the destruction of Pompeii, to the first appearance of the bubonic plague, the Romans experienced large scale ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD