In this pathbreaking volume, Ross Shepard Kraemer provides the first comprehensive look at women's religions in Greco-Roman antiquity. She vividly recreates the religious lives of early Christian, Jewish, and pagan women, with many fascinating examples: Greek women's devotion to goddesses, rites of Roman matrons, Jewish women in rabbinic and ...
The authors take stock of the religious themes--such as humanism and spiritualism, the relationship between science and spirit, and the nature of evil--that are represented in over three decades of Star Trek.
A sort of Who's Who of Biblical women, this expansive sourcebook includes more than 800 articles on women featured in the Old and New Testaments, and related texts.
This is a substantially expanded and completely revised edition of a book originally published in 1988 as Maenads, Martyrs, Matrons, Monastics. The book is a collection of translations of primary texts relevant to women's religion in Western antiquity, from the fourth century BCE to the fifth century CE. The selections are taken from from the ...
This is a collection of previously unpublished essays on the role of women in the New Testament and in the early church. It begins by supplying the historical and social contexts of women's lives in the New Testament period. In the next sections, the authors address issues surrounding the representation of women in the Gospels and in the Pauline ...
This is a study of an anonymous ancient work, originally composed in Greek, titled Joseph and Aseneth. Although relatively unknown outside of scholarly circles, the story is remarkable because of its focus on a female character and its lack of overt misogyny and has traditionally been viewed as an early second-century C.E. conversion story of ...
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford
Date Published: 1992
Description: Fine/Fine, DJ. 6.25 X 9.5, 275, Pages. Like new in like new DJ with tiny mark on bottom of page edges. The intense relationship ancient women had with their religions. read more
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