Women leaders in the ancient synagogue : inscriptional evidence and background issues Bernadette Brooten.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brooten, Bernadette J., author.

Series:

Brown Judaic studies ; 36.

Brown Judaic studies; 36

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Women in Judaism--History.

Women in Judaism.

Synagogues--Organization and administration--History.

Synagogues.

Jews--History--168 B.C.-135 A.D.

Jews.

Jews--History--70-638.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 281 p. ) illustrations (greyscale), plates, tables

Place of Publication:

[Providence, RI] : Brown Judaic Studies, 2014

Atlanta : Scholars Press, 2020.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book argues that women served as leaders in a number of synagogues during the Roman and Byzantine periods. The evidence for this consists of nineteen Greek and Latin inscriptions in which women bear the titles "head of the synagogue," "leader," "elder," "mother of the synagogue" and "priestess." These inscriptions range in date from 27 B.C.E. to perhaps the sixth century C.E. and in provenance from Italy to Asia Minor, Egypt and Palestine. While new discoveries make this a growing corpus of material, a number of the inscriptions have been known to scholars for some time. The book contains a new preface by the author.

Contents:

Part One: The Inscriptional Evidence

Part Two: Background Questions.

Women as Heads of Synagogues

Woman as Leader

Women as Elders

Women as Mothers of the Synagogue

Women as Priests

Did the Ancient Synagogue Have a Women's Gallery or Separate Women's Section?

Further Background Issues Relating to Women Leaders in the Ancient Synagogue.

Credits:

Publication of this book is made possible in part by The Max Richter Foundation of Rhode Island.

Notes:

The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. To use this book, or parts of this book, in any way not covered by the license, please contact Brown Judaic Studies, Brown University, Box 1826, Providence, RI 02912.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Brooten, Bernadette J. Women leaders in the ancient synagogue.

ISBN:

9781951498078

9781951498085

1951498089

OCLC:

1157681550

Publisher Number:

10.26300/bdf6-qs07 DOI