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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823413803321

Autore

Kraemer Ross Shepard <1948->

Titolo

Her share of the blessings : women's religions among pagans, Jews, and Christians in the Greco-Roman world / / Ross Shepard Kraemer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993

ISBN

0-19-773948-2

0-19-987978-8

0-585-34137-0

1-280-44225-5

0-19-802313-8

Edizione

[1st Oxford pbk. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

291.082

Soggetti

Paganism - Mediterranean Region - History

Women and religion - History

Women in Christianity - History - Early church, ca. 30-600

Women in Judaism - History

Women - Religious life - Mediterranean Region - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1992.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-267) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. Women's Devotion to Ancient Greek Goddesses; 3. Women's Devotion to Adonis; 4. Women's Devotion to Dionysos; 5. Rites of Roman Matrons; 6. Women's Devotion to the Egyptian Goddess Isis in the Greco-Roman World; 7. Women's Religious Offices in Greco-Roman Paganism; 8. Jewish Women's Religious Lives in Rabbinic Sources; 9. Jewish Women's Religious Lives and Offices in the Greco-Roman Diaspora; 10. Autonomy, Prophecy, and Gender in Early Christianity; 11. Heresy as Women's Religion: Women's Religion as Heresy

12. Women's Leadership and Offices in Christian Communities; 13. Women's Religious Leadership and Offices in Retrospect; Epilogue: Toward a Theory of Women's Religions; Abbreviations; Notes; Ancient Sources and Translations; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

This examination of women's religions in Greco-Roman antiquity



recreates the religious lives of early Christian, Jewish and pagan women based on epitaphs and public inscriptions, letters and personal documents, references in literary works, and anthropological studies.