Although later pushed to the side, women in early Christian communities often owned the ‘house churches’ where congregations gathered to worship.
Elizabeth Clark
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/first/roles.html
WGBH
1998
English
Elizabeth Clark, “The Roles for Women”
Scholar Karen King examines the evidence concerning women’s important place in early Christianity. She draws a surprising new portrait of Mary Magdalene and outlines the stories of previously unknown early Christian women.
This is the prison diary of a young woman martyered in Carthage in 202 or 203 CE. The beginning and ending are related by an editor/narrator; the central text contains the words of Perpetua herself.
