Material Culture and Women's Religious Experience in Antiquity (eBook, ePUB)

An Interdisciplinary Symposium
Redaktion: Ellison, Mark D.; Osiek, Carolyn; Taylor, Catherine Gines

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How can material artifacts help illuminate the religious lives of women in antiquity? In what ways do archaeological and art historical studies recover women's religious perspectives and experiences that the literary record misses or underrepresents? The authors of the essays in this volume set out to answer such questions in fascinating, new case studies of women and ancient religions in the Near East and Mediterranean world. They cover a broad historical, geographic, and religious spectrum as they explore women's lives from the time of ancient Egypt in the second millennium BCE into the early medieval period, from the Syrian Desert to Western Europe, in the religious traditions of Egypt, Canaan, Greece, Rome, ancient Israel, early Judaism, and early Christianity. Working at the intersections of religion, archaeology, art history, and women's history, these authors make fresh contributions to interdisciplinary studies, and their essays will be of interest to students and scholars across these academic fields.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781793611949
• Artikelnr.: 62828562

Autorenporträt

Mark D. Ellison is associate professor in the Department of Ancient Scripture at Brigham Young University. Catherine Gines Taylor is Hugh W. Nibley Postdoctoral Fellow at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University. Carolyn Osiek is Charles Fischer Professor of New Testament emerita at Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Mark D. Ellison, Catherine Gines Taylor, and Carolyn Osiek
1.Keynote: Between the Holy and the Ordinary: Women's Lives in Early
Christianity
Carolyn Osiek
2.Transferring and Transforming Religious Identity Abroad: The Personal
Adornment of an Egyptian Woman in Canaan
Krystal V. L. Pierce
3.Besieged Maternity: Reading Textual Cannibalism in the Hebrew Bible
through Material Culture
Susannah M. Larry
4.Material Expression and Mantic Performance: An Examination of Women's
Religious Experience at the Time of Josiah
Amanda Colleen Brown
5."Part of the Same Miracle": Women and Visual Art in the Dura Europos
Synagogue
Sarah E. G. Fein
6.Female Experience at the Tomb: Ritual Commemoration and Sarcophagus
Imagery
Sarah Madole Lewis
7.Assessing the Roles of Women in New Syrian Funerary Reliefs in Japanese
Collections
Kerry Hull and Lincoln H. Blumell
8.Foreseeing the Divine Bridal Chamber: A Household of Mosaics from
Shahba-Philippopolis
Catherine Gines Taylor
9.Reimagining and Reimaging