Unreliable witnesses
Subtitle: religion, gender and history in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean
By: Ross Shepard Kraeme.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780199743186
Subjects: Women and religion -- Rome; Rome -- Religion
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Short stories : a Bacchic courtesan, the reporter from hell, the daughters of rabbis, a Christian matron in Rome; title: Spouses of wisdom : Philo's Therapeutae, reconsidered; title: Thecla of Iconium, reconsidered; title: Artemisia of Minorca : gender and the conversion of the Jews in the 5th century; title: Veturia of Rome and Rufina of Smyrna as counterbalance : women officeholders in ancient synagogues and Gentile adopters of Judean practices; title: Rethinking gender, history and women's religions in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean.