Chastity as Autonomy: Women in the Stories of the Apocryphal Acts by Virginia Burrus

Chastity as Autonomy: Women in the Stories of the Apocryphal Acts

Virginia Burrus

136 pages first pub 1987 (editions)

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This is a serious interdisciplinary exploration of the role of women in the sub-literature of Christian Apocrypha. Concluding that the Apocryphal Acts originated among women as folk tales, the author of this study hypothesizes that their origins w...

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