TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kraemer,Ross Shepard
TI  - Unreliable witnesses: religion, gender, and history in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean 
SN  - 9780199743186 (hardback : alk. paper)
AV  - BL815.W6 K73 2011
U1  - 200.82/0937 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Women and religion
KW  - Rome
KW  - Women in Judaism
KW  - Women in Christianity
KW  - Religion
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -