Her Shape of the Blessings : Women's Religions Among Pagans, Jews, and Christians in the Greco-Roman World

by: Shepard Kraemer, R.

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 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

Preface vii
Introduction
3 (19)
Women's Devotion to Ancient Greek Goddesses
22 (8)
Women's Devotion to Adonis
30 (6)
Women's Devotion to Dionysos
36 (14)
Rites of Roman Matrons
50 (21)
Women's Devotion to the Egyptian Goddess Isis in the Greco-Roman World
71 (9)
Women's Religious Offices in Greco-Roman Paganism
80 (13)
Jewish Women's Religious Lives in Rabbinic Sources
93 (13)
Jewish Women's Religious Lives and Offices in the Greco-Roman Diaspora
106 (22)
Autonomy, Prophecy, and Gender in Early Christianity
128 (29)
Heresy as Women's Religion: Women's Religion as Heresy
157 (17)
Women's Leadership and Offices in Christian Communities
174 (17)
Women's Religious Leadership and Offices in Retrospect
191 (8)
Epilogue: Toward a Theory of Women's Religions 199 (10)
Abbreviations 209 (2)
Notes 211 (37)
Ancient Sources and Translations 248 (5)
Bibliography 253 (16)
Index 269

Subjects:
30-600
Femmes dans le christianisme Histoire ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
Femmes dans le judaïsme Histoire
Femmes et religion Histoire
History
Mediterranean Region
Paganism
Paganism Mediterranean Region History
Women Religious life
Women Religious life Mediterranean Region History
Women and religion
Women and religion History
Women in Christianity Early church
Women in Christianity History Early church, ca. 30-600
Women in Judaism
Women in Judaism History

Her Shape of the Blessings : Women's Religions Among Pagans, Jews, and Christians in the Greco-Roman World

by: Shepard Kraemer, R.

• ISBN-13: 9780195066869 / 978-0-19-506686-9
• ISBN-03: 0195066863 / 0-19-506686-3
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992

Price: 39,00 EURO

1 copy in stock