Kraemer, Ross Shepard,  1948- <br/><br/>
Unreliable witnesses :  religion, gender, and history in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean / 
Ross Shepard Kraemer. 
 - New York :  Oxford University Press,  c2011. 
 - xv, 322 p. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199743186 (hardback : alk. paper) 0199743185 (hardback : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>^^2010009174 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBB0A3826  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>015638484  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women and religion--Rome.<br/>Women in Judaism--Rome.<br/>Women in Christianity--Rome.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Rome--Religion.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BL815.W6  / K73 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>200.82/0937