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Women's Role in the Very Early Days of Christianity

Bettany Hughes talks with Professor Kate Cooper about how the latest research is showing just how crucial wealthy Roman women were to the spread of Christianity in the first few centuries. When asked whether Christianity would have survived without women, Professor Cooper makes a surprising and thought-provoking claim.

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