Unreliable witnesses : religion, gender, and history in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean / Ross Shepard Kraemer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kraemer, Ross Shepard, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and religion--Rome.

Women and religion.

Women in Christianity--Rome.

Women in Christianity.

Women in Judaism--Rome.

Women in Judaism.

Rome--Religion.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Kraemer analyzes how gender provides the historically obfuscating substructure of diverse texts. While attentive to arguments that women are largely fictive proxies in elite male contestations over masculinity, authority and power, Kraemer retains her focus on redescribing and explaining women's religious practices.

Contents:

Contents; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Four Short Stories: A Bacchic Courtesan, the Reporter from Hell, the Daughters of Rabbis, a Roman Christian Matron; 3. Spouses of Wisdom: Philo's Therapeutrides, Reconsidered; 4. Thecla of Iconium, Reconsidered; 5. Artemisia of Minorca: Gender and the Conversion of the Jews in the Fifth Century; 6. Veturia of Rome and Rufina of Smyrna as Counterbalance: Women Office Holders in Ancient Synagogues and Gentile Adopters of Judean Practices; 7. Rethinking Gender, History, and Women's Religions in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean; Works Cited

Index of Ancient SourcesA; B; C; D; E; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed Dec. 17, 2010).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612900013

9780190453923

0190453923

9780199916511

0199916519

9781282900011

1282900013

9780199781201

0199781206

OCLC:

701205801