Lydia's Impatient Sisters offers a social history of the everyday life of women, setting common experiences of labor, money, illness, and resistance in the context of the Roman imperial society.Luise Schottroff relates this history to important theological topics in New Testament, such as the revelation of God and the daily life of the church. Schottroff's work demonstrates how women were embedded in their social world.
- ISBN10 0664255558
- ISBN13 9780664255558
- Publish Date September 1995
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 28 June 2021
- Publish Country AU
- Imprint Westminster John Knox Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 298
- Language English