Terms, Names,
Concepts
Week
1
Greco-Roman world
Xenophon
Aristotle
Galen
Soranus, Gynaecology
Patriarchy, patriarchal society
Genesis creation stories
Miriam, Deborah, Huldah
Week 2
Roman Empire
pater familias
guardianship
manus marriage
Emperor Augustus (d. 14 CE)
"right of 3 or 4 children" [jus
liberorum]
mystery religions
Mithraism, Mithra
cult of Isis
Horus
Osiris
Mary
& Martha
Virigin Mary
Mary Magdalene
Samaritan woman (John 4)
Paul's letters
1 Corinthians
household codes
Week 3
creation accounts, Genesis 1-3
imago dei
the Fall
Tertullian
"devil's gateway"
Gnosticism
gnosis
dualism
demiurge
Gospel of Mary
Clement of Alexandria
Week
4
imperial cult
martyrs, martyrdom
Agnes
Perpetua
martyrs of Lyons
Blandina
Emperor Decius
Emperor Diocletian
apocalytic literature
Maccabees
Maccabean Martyrs
redemtive suffering
Celsus
prophets,
prophecy
4 daughters of Philip (Acts 21:9)
Jezebel (Rev. 2:20)
1 Corinthinas 11:3-16
New Prophecy = Montanism
Montanus
Priscilla & Maximilla
Tertullian
orthodoxy
heresy
Week 5
apocryphal acts
Acts of Paul and Thecla
Thecla
Drusiana
Pastoral Epistles
Celsus
patronage
patron
deacons
church order
widows
virgins
ordination
Week 6
monasticism, monastic movement
Anthony of Egypt
ascetic, asceticism (ascesis)
neo-platonism
anchoritic monasticism
cenobitic monasticism
Pachomius
Basil of Caesarea
Augustine
Cappadocian Fathers (Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory of
Nazianzus)
Melania
Macrina
Jerome
Paula
Eustochium
"angelic life"
Jerome, Agaisnt Jovinian
Gregory of Nyssa, Life of Macrina
Week
7
desert mothers
desert (eremos)
Moses
exodus
John the Baptist
Jesus
amma, abba
semi-eremitic, semi-cenobitic
Apophthegmata Patrum =
Sayings of the Desert Fathers
Sarah, Syncletica, Theodora
Mary Magdalene
Pelagia
Mary of Egypt
Zossima
niece of Abraham
Weeks 7-8
law codes
Constantine's law on divorce
housework
Marcella
Olympias
John Chrysostom
Hypatia of Alexandria
Augustine
Confessions
Monica
Manichaeism
Pelagianism
original sin
procreation