Unreliable witnesses : religion, gender, and history in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean

Publication Data

• Title Unreliable witnesses : religion, gender, and history in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean
• Author Ross Shepard Kraemer
• Publisher Oxford University Press
• Publication date 2011
• Publication location New York
• Language English

Contents

Four short stories : a Bacchic courtesan, the reporter from hell, the daughters of rabbis, a Roman Christian matron
Spouses of wisdom : Philo's Therapeutae, reconsidered
Thecla of Iconium, reconsidered
Artemisia of Minorca : gender and the conversion of the Jews in the 5th century
Veturia of Rome and Rufina of Smyrna as counterbalance : women officeholders in ancient synagogues and Gentile adopters of Judean practices
Rethinking gender, history and women's religions in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean.

Topics

• Women and religion :: Rome
• Women in Judaism :: Rome
• Women in Christianity :: Rome
• Rome :: Religion
• Rome

Unreliable witnesses : religion, gender, and history in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean by Ross Shepard Kraemer. ISBN 9780199743186. Published by Oxford University Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.