Resumen de Christian Women in the Greek Papyri of Egypt to 400 CE by Erica A. Mathieson (review)
[...]if women commonly dictated letters to male scribes, that in itself forms part of women's experience and does not lessen the value of the contents in determining women's expression of their religiosity.While the number of papyri that relate to these topics is very small-eight for asceticism and four for magic-they are important in that they show the earliest interaction of Christian women with these practices as recorded in the papyri.[...]Mathieson notes that the letters she has chosen to include demonstrate that women are committed to keeping their family members connected and praying for their health (200), an action that she finds consistent with the beliefs of the early church.
