[A Week in the Life 01] • A Week in the Life of a Greco-Roman Woman
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- Authors
- Beers, Holly
- Publisher
- IVP Academic
- Tags
- historical fiction;academic fiction;fiction;women;christian fiction;ancient ephesus;ephesus;paul;new testament background;cultural background of the new testament;new testament;social background of the new testament;bible;cultural context;biblical context;ancient near east;ancient near eastern background;women in the bible;ephesian woman;woman in ancient ephesus;biblical background;bible background;a week in the life series
- Date
- 2019-12-03T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 5.83 MB
- Lang
- en
In first-century Ephesus, life is not easy for women. A young wife meets her daily struggles with equanimity and courage. She holds poverty and hunger at bay, fights to keep her child healthy and strong, and navigates the unpredictability of her husband's temperament. But into the midst of her daily fears and worries, a new hope appears: a teaching that challenges her society's most basic assumption. What is this new teaching? And what will it demand of her? In this gripping novel, Holly Beers introduces us to the first-century setting where the apostle Paul first proclaimed the gospel. Illuminated by historical images and explanatory sidebars, this lively story not only shows us the rich tapestry of life in a thriving Greco-Roman city, it also foregrounds the interior life of one courageous woman--and the radical new freedom the gospel promised her.