Unreliable witnesses
Subtitle: religion, gender and history in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean
By: Ross Shepard Kraemer.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199743186
Subjects: Women and religion -- Rome; Rome -- Religion
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.