This 12-month calendar combines archaeological and textual evidence in six full-color images depicting women's leadership roles in the early church. The calendar also includes an annotated map of the early Christian world that identifies where tomb inscriptions, fescoes, and mosaics depict women deacons, priests, and bishops. 12 months, 6 illustrations.
	DOROTHY IRVIN (S.T.D.; Ph.D., Tubingen) has taught theology at several Catholic universities, and is an active field archaeologist in the country of Jordan. She lectures on the archaeological sources for women's ministries in the early church. Dorothy has a grown daughter, son, and granddaughter.