Her Share of the Blessings
Subtitle: Women's Religions among Pagans, Jews, and Christians in the Greco-Roman World
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780198023135
Subjects: Women in Judaism; Paganism; Women; Women and religion; Women in Christianity
Description: This examination of women's religions in Greco-Roman antiquity recreates the religious lives of early Christian, Jewish and pagan women based on epitaphs and public inscriptions, letters and personal documents, references in literary works, and anthropological studies.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Preface; Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. Women's Devotion to Ancient Greek Goddesses; 3. Women's Devotion to Adonis; 4. Women's Devotion to Dionysos; 5. Rites of Roman Matrons; 6. Women's Devotion to the Egyptian Goddess Isis in the Greco-Roman World; 7. Women's Religious Offices in Greco-Roman Paganism; 8. Jewish Women's Religious Lives in Rabbinic Sources; 9. Jewish Women's Religious Lives and Offices in the Greco-Roman Diaspora; 10. Autonomy, Prophecy, and Gender in Early Christianity; 11. Heresy as Women's Religion: Women's Religion as Heresy.