Unreliable witnesses : religion, gender, and history in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean / Ross Shepard Kraemer.

Author/creator Kraemer, Ross Shepard, 1948-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
Descriptionxv, 322 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents Four short stories : a Bacchic courtesan, the reporter from hell, the daughters of rabbis, a Roman Christian matron -- Spouses of wisdom : Philo's Therapeutrides, reconsidered -- Thecla of Iconium, reconsidered -- Artemisia of Minorca : gender and the conversion of the Jews in the fifth century -- Veturia of Rome and Rufina of Smyrna as counterbalance : women office holders in ancient synagogues and Gentile adopters of Judean practices -- Rethinking gender, history and women's religions in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [275]-304) and index.
LCCN 2010009174
ISBN9780199743186 (alk. paper)
ISBN0199743185 (alk. paper)