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The Bone Gatherers: The Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women
Nicola Denzey
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| #935209 in Books | Beacon Press | 2008-07-01 | 2008-07-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.95 x5.95l,1.05 | File type: PDF | 312 pages | ||7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| In Search of the Women of Roman Christianity|By Dr. John B. Switzer, ObSB|In this book, Nicola Denzey takes us on a most interesting journey to the lives of Christian women in the late Roman period (first through fourth centuries CE). As she suggests, it appears that the artwork of Christian catacombs might tell us some things about these women that the overt Christian traditi|From Publishers Weekly|In late antiquity, pious Christian women buried the remains of saints and martyrs, sometimes on land the women themselves owned. The legends of these bone gatherers launch Denzey's investigation into the experiences of third- and fourth-ce
The bone gatherers found in the annals and legends of the early Roman Catholic Church were women who collected the bodies of martyred saints to give them a proper burial. They have come down to us as deeply resonant symbols of grief: from the women who anointed Jesus's crucified body in the gospels to the Pietà, we are accustomed to thinking of women as natural mourners, caring for the body in all its fragility and expressing our deepest sorrow.
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You easily download any file type for your gadget.The Bone Gatherers: The Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women | Nicola Denzey. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
