Ross Shepard Kraemer

Unreliable Witnesses

Religion, Gender, and History in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean

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Produktbeschreibung

Through case studies, Ross Shepard Kraemer explores how rhetorical uses of gender obscure our vision of women's practice of religion in antiquity and shows how religious practices in the ancient Mediterranean, whether gender-specific or not, routinely encoded and affirmed ideas about gender.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9780199916511
• ISBN-10: 0199916519
• Artikelnr.: 35109533

Autorenporträt

A native of New York City, Ross Shepard Kraemer majored in Religion at Smith College and holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Religion from Princeton University. She is the author and editor of numerous books and scholarly articles on women's religions in the Greco-Roman world, particularly Christian and Jewish women. She is Professor of Religious Studies and Judaic Studies at Brown University, where she has taught since 2000.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* 1. Introduction
* 2. Four short stories: a Bacchic courtesan, the reporter from Hell,
the daughters of rabbis, a Christian matron in Rome
* 3. Spouses of Wisdom: Philo's Therapeutae, reconsidered
* 4. Thecla of Iconium, reconsidered
* 5. Artemisia of Minorca: Gender and the Conversion of the Jews in the
5th century
* 6. Veturia of Rome and Rufina of Smyrna as Counterbalance: Women
Officeholders in Ancient Synagogues and Gentile Adopters of Judean
Practices
* 7. Rethinking Gender, History and Women's Religions in the
Greco-Roman Mediterranean
* Bibliography
* Abbreviations
* Index