Women in the Early Church

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Primary Sources

Sebastian P. Brock & Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Translators & Introducers. Holy Women of the Syrian Orient. The Transformation of the Christian Heritage 13, new edn. Berkeley / Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998. Pbk. ISBN: 0520213661. pp. 218. {Amazon.com}

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