Lydia's Impatient Sisters: A Feminist Social History of Early Christianity Book

	Foreword
	Preface to the Westminster John Knox Press Edition
	Preface
I	Feminist Social History: Historical Method and Hermeneutics
1	The Jesus Movement and Messianic Communities in the Jewish Diaspora of the First Century C.E.	3
2	Patriarchy and the Hope for the Reign of God	17
3	The New Testament: Word of God or Androcentric Obfuscation of History?	43
4	"From Life to Scripture - From Scripture to Life"	58
II	The Everyday Life of Women
1	Oppression of Women and Hatred of Women's Liberation (I Tim. 2:9-15)	69
2	From Women's Hands: The Work of Women in the New Testament (Matt. 13:33; Luke 13:2Of.)	79
3	The Lost Coin: Women's Daily Struggle for Money and Bread (Luke 15:8-10)	91
4	The Stubborn Widow and the Resistance of Women (Luke 18:1-8)	101
III	The Critique of Patriarchy and the Power to Become a New Being
1	Do Not Remain in the State in Which You Were Called...: The Calling of God and Social "Status" in Patriarchy (1Cor. 7:15-24)	121
2	The Gospel of the Poor and the Option for Women (Luke 6:20Off. and par.;Matt. 11:25 and par.)	136
3	Impenitent Patriarchy and the Nearness of God (Matt. 24:37-39; Luke 17:26-27, 30; and Mark 13:28-33): The Eschatology of Early Christianity	152
VI	Liberating Praxis of Women and Men
1	The Exaltation of Debased Women (John 7:53-8:11 and Luke 1:48): A Preliminary Remark on the Connection of These Texts	177
2	"It Is Not So among You..." (Matt. 10:42-45 and par.): Communion on the Way to God's Reign	204
	Abbreviations	224
	Notes	226
	Bibliography	275
	Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Writings	291