Unreliable witnesses: religion, gender, and history in the greco-roman mediterranean

Through case studies, Ross Shepard Kraemer explores how rhetorical uses of gender obscure our vision of women's practice of religion in antiquity and showshow religious practices in the ancient Mediterranean, whether gender-specificor not, routinely encoded and affirmed ideas about gender. INDICE: Acknowledgments; 1.: Introduction; 2.: Four short stories: a Bacchic courtesan, the reporter from Hell, the daughters of rabbis, a Christian matron in Rome; 3.: Spouses of Wisdom: Philo's Therapeutae, reconsidered; 4.: Thecla of Iconium, reconsidered; 5.: Artemisia of Minorca: Gender and the Conversion of the Jews in the 5th century; 6.: Veturia of Rome and Rufina of Smyrna as Counterbalance: Women Officeholders in Ancient Synagogues and Gentile Adopters of Judean Practices; 7.: Rethinking Gender, History and Women's Religions in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean; Bibliography; Abbreviations; Index

• ISBN: 978-0-19-974318-6
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 368
• Fecha Publicación: 27/01/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés