Her Share of the Blessings: Women's Religions among Pagans, Jews, and Christians in the Greco-Roman WorldOxford University Press, 20/01/1994 - 288 من الصفحات In this pathbreaking volume, Ross Shepard Kraemer provides the first comprehensive look at women's religions in Greco-Roman antiquity. She vividly recreates the religious lives of early Christian, Jewish, and pagan women, with many fascinating examples: Greek women's devotion to goddesses, rites of Roman matrons, Jewish women in rabbinic and diaspora communities, Christian women's struggles to exercise authority and autonomy, and women's roles as leaders in the full spectrum of Greco-Roman religions. In every case, Kraemer reveals the connections between the social constraints under which women lived, and their religious beliefs and practices. The relationship among female autonomy, sexuality, and religion emerges as a persistent theme. Analyzing the monastic Jewish Therapeutae and various Christian communities, Kraemer demonstrates the paradoxical liberation which women achieved by rejection of sexuality, the body, and the female. In the epilogue, Kraemer pursues the disturbing implications such findings have for contemporary women. Based on an astonishing variety of primary sources, Her Share of the Blessings is an insightful work that goes beyond the limitations of previous scholarship to provide a more accurate portrait of women in the Greco-Roman world. |
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Womens Devotion to Ancient Greek Goddesses | |
Womens Devotion to Adonis | |
Womens Devotion to Dionysos | |
Rites of Roman Matrons | |
Womens Devotion to the Egyptian Goddess Isis in the GrecoRoman World | |
Womens Religious Offices in GrecoRoman Paganism | |
Jewish Womens Religious Lives in Rabbinic Sources | |
Autonomy Prophecy and Gender in Early Christianity | |
Womens Religion as Heresy | |
Womens Leadership and Offices in Christian Communities | |
Womens Religious Leadership and Offices in Retrospect | |
Toward a Theory of Womens Religions | |
Abbreviations | |
Notes | |
Ancient Sources and Translations | |
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Acts of Thecla ancient antiquity argued asceticism Aseneth Asia Minor authority autonomy Bacchae Bacchanalia Bacchic Bona Dea Brooten Cataphrygians century C.E. Christian communities Christian women church Corinthians cosmology cult cultic daughters Demeter Dionysos discussion divine Douglas Douglas’s early Christian ecstatic elite Roman women Epiphanius evidence experience father female feminist festival Fiorenza gender goddess Greco-Roman group and grid Hellenistic high grid husbands Ibid inscriptions interpretation Isis Jesus movement Jewish Jewish communities Jewish women Jews Judaism Kraemer Livy low grid Maenads male marriage married Mary Matralia matrons Matuta Maximilla Mishnah Montanism Montanist mother named numerous observance Ovid pagan participation Paul Paul’s Perpetua Plutarch presbyter priestess priests Priscilla Prophecy rabbinic religious office rites ritual roles Rome scholars second century sexual significant slaves society sources status story strong grid strong group suggests synagogue temple Tertullian Timothy traditional Vestals virgins weak grid Wegner woman women prophets women’s leadership women’s lives women’s religions worship