Excavating Women

Auteur

Carina Oliveira Prestes is professor of religion and a curator of the Museum of Biblical Archaeology at the Adventist University of São Paulo. She previously worked as an architect until she started her studies in biblical archaeology at Andrews University, where she participated in archaeological excavations in Jordan, Italy, and Israel.

Texte du rabat

Excavating Women investigates the leadership of women in Christian churches in the first six centuries CE through a study of archaeological remains. Carina Prestes surveys the role of women in Greco-Roman society and examines funerary remains of the first Christian centuries to understand the role of women in Christian communities.