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

By: Kraemer, Ross Shepard, 1948-Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, c2011. Description: xv, 322 p. ; 25 cmISBN: 9780199743186 (hardback : alk. paper); 0199743185 (hardback : alk. paper)Uniform titles: University press scholarship online. Subject(s): Women and religion -- Rome | Women in Judaism -- Rome | Women in Christianity -- Rome | Rome -- ReligionDDC classification: 200.82/0937 LOC classification: BL815.W6 | K73 2011
Contents:
Four short stories : a Bacchic courtesan, the reporter from hell, the daughters of rabbis, a Roman Christian matron -- Spouses of wisdom : Philo's Therapeutae, reconsidered -- Thecla of Iconium, reconsidered -- Artemisia of Minorca : gender and the conversion of the Jews in the 5th century -- Veturia of Rome and Rufina of Smyrna as counterbalance : women officeholders in ancient synagogues and Gentile adopters of Judean practices -- Rethinking gender, history and women's religions in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Four short stories : a Bacchic courtesan, the reporter from hell, the daughters of rabbis, a Roman Christian matron -- Spouses of wisdom : Philo's Therapeutae, reconsidered -- Thecla of Iconium, reconsidered -- Artemisia of Minorca : gender and the conversion of the Jews in the 5th century -- Veturia of Rome and Rufina of Smyrna as counterbalance : women officeholders in ancient synagogues and Gentile adopters of Judean practices -- Rethinking gender, history and women's religions in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean.

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.