Interest in the real lives of ancient women continues. This review essay considers three recent small books from Bruce Malina's new series “Paul's Social Networks: Brothers and Sisters in the Faith.”
Abu-Lughod,L.2000. Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
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Collins,John N.2002. Deacons in the Church: Making Connections between Old and New. Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Publishing.
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Collins,John N.1990. Diakonia: Re-interpreting the Ancient Sources. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
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Crook,Zeba A.2009. “Honor, Shame, and Social Status Revisited.” Journal of Biblical Literature128: 591–612.
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Dubisch,Jill. 1986. Gender and Power in Rural Greece. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
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MacDonald,Margaret Y.1999. Reading Real Women through the Undisputed Letters of Paul. Pp. 199–220 in Women and Christian Origins, Shepard Kraemer,RossRose D'Angelo,Mary. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
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Murphy-O'Connor,Jerome. 1992. Prisca and Aquila: Traveling Tentmakers and Church Builders. Bible Review8/6: 40–51, 62.
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Oakes,Peter. 2001. Philippians: From People to Letter. SNT-MS 110. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
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Olson,Jeannine E.2005. Deacons and Deaconesses through the Centuries. Revised edition. St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House.
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Osiek,Carolyn. 2008. “Women, Honor, and Context in Mediterranean Antiquity.” Hervormde Teologiese Studies64: 323–37.
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Osiek,Carolyn, & MacDonald,Margaret Y., with Tulloch,Janet H.. 2006. A Woman's Place: House Churches in Earliest Christianity. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press.
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Rawson,Beryl, ed. 2011. A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
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Wikan,Uni. 1984. “Shame and Honour: A Contestable Pair.” Man19: 635–52.
