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Her share of the blessings : women's religions among pagans, Jews, and Christians in the Greco-Roman world / Ross Shepard Kraemer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kraemer, Ross Shepard, 1948- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Religious life--Mediterranean Region--History.
- Women.
- Women and religion--History.
- Women and religion.
- Women in Judaism--History.
- Women in Judaism.
- Women in Christianity--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.
- Women in Christianity.
- Paganism--Mediterranean Region--History.
- Paganism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st Oxford pbk. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This examination of women's religions in Greco-Roman antiquity recreates the religious lives of early Christian, Jewish and pagan women based on epitaphs and public inscriptions, letters and personal documents, references in literary works, and anthropological studies.
- Contents:
- Preface; Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. Women's Devotion to Ancient Greek Goddesses; 3. Women's Devotion to Adonis; 4. Women's Devotion to Dionysos; 5. Rites of Roman Matrons; 6. Women's Devotion to the Egyptian Goddess Isis in the Greco-Roman World; 7. Women's Religious Offices in Greco-Roman Paganism; 8. Jewish Women's Religious Lives in Rabbinic Sources; 9. Jewish Women's Religious Lives and Offices in the Greco-Roman Diaspora; 10. Autonomy, Prophecy, and Gender in Early Christianity; 11. Heresy as Women's Religion: Women's Religion as Heresy
- 12. Women's Leadership and Offices in Christian Communities; 13. Women's Religious Leadership and Offices in Retrospect; Epilogue: Toward a Theory of Women's Religions; Abbreviations; Notes; Ancient Sources and Translations; Bibliography; Index;
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1992.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-267) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-773948-2
- 0-19-987978-8
- 0-585-34137-0
- 1-280-44225-5
- 0-19-802313-8
- OCLC:
- 476007708
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