Jesus and Women. The role of women in Jesus" communion and in the early Christianity

Until recently, the theme of the decisive role of women in the original Christianity was simply ignored. After two millennia, silence appeared serious reasons to ask questions about the true place of women in the life of Jesus and the early Christian movement. It turned out that it was women who were the most important and influential figures surrounded by Jesus and in the groups of the first Christians, but very quickly in the early Christian movement, the women returned to the marginal position in the patriarchal society, and all key roles in the communities were divering to themselves men. The world-famous Bible Specialist and Ancient Literature Richard Baym proposes to go to the intellectual journey to the origins of Christianity, so that, on the one hand, remove covers with a thousand-year mystery, and, on the other hand, to provide a weighted and reasoned point of view in opposition to sensational discoveries and Hypothesians on the role of women in the personal and public life of Jesus