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

Author: Ross Shepard Kraemer
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Through case studies, Ross Shepard Kraemer explores how rhetorical uses of gender obscure our vision of women's practice of religion in antiquity and shows how religious practices in the ancient  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
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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