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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ross Shepard Kraemer |
| ISBN: | 9780199743186 0199743185 |
| OCLC Number: | 557404947 |
| Description: | xv, 322 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Four short stories : a Bacchic courtesan, the reporter from hell, the daughters of rabbis, a Roman Christian matron -- Spouses of wisdom : Philo's Therapeutrides, reconsidered -- Thecla of Iconium, reconsidered -- Artemisia of Minorca : gender and the conversion of the Jews in the fifth century -- Veturia of Rome and Rufina of Smyrna as counterbalance : women office holders in ancient synagogues and Gentile adopters of Judean practices -- Rethinking gender, history and women's religions in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean. |
| Responsibility: | Ross Shepard Kraemer. |
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This is stimulating, enjoyable book ... Kraemer is a fine scholar, delightfully readable and her histories of historiography will be particularly illuminating to students. Times Literary Supplement
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