Title: Unreliable witnesses : religion, gender, and history in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean /
Authors: Kraemer, Ross Shepard, 1948-
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Women and religion Rome.; Women in Judaism Rome.; Women in Christianity Rome.; Rome Religion.
Abstract: Kraemer analyzes how gender provides the historically obfuscating substructure of diverse texts. While attentive to arguments that women are largely fictive proxies in elite male contestations over masculinity, authority and power, Kraemer retains her focus on redescribing and explaining women's religious practices.
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.