Sara Parks, Shayna Sheinfeld, Meredith J C Warren

Jewish and Christian Women in the Ancient Mediterranean

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This engaging and accessible textbook provides an introduction to the study of ancient Jewish and Christian women in their Hellenistic and Roman contexts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 694g
• ISBN-13: 9781138543799
• ISBN-10: 1138543799
• Artikelnr.: 62570892

Autorenporträt

Sara Parks is Assistant Professor in Biblical Studies (New Testament) at Dublin City University, Ireland. She researches gender in late Second-Temple Judaism and early Christianity. Parks is the author of Gender in the Rhetoric of Jesus: Women in Q (2019). Shayna Sheinfeld is a Fellow at the Frankel Institute for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, USA. Her current project examines diversity in Jewish leadership by challenging androcentric ideas of authority in both ancient sources and contemporary scholarship. Sheinfeld recently edited Gender and Second-Temple Judaism (2020). Meredith J. C. Warren is Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield, UK, where she is Director of the Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies. Author of Food and Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Literature (2019), Warren researches shared cultural understandings of eating in ancient narratives.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Religious Systems of Antiquity 3. Bodies of Literature
4. Accessing Ancient Sources 5. Ancient Judaism 6. Early Jesus Movement 7.
Religion in Daily Life: From Birth to Death 8. Women as Consumers,
Characters, and Creators of Literature 9. (Wo)manly Ways of Dying 10. The
Second Century and Beyond