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A most reliable witness : essays in honor of Ross Shepard Kraemer / edited by Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Nathaniel P. DesRosiers, Shira L. Lander, Jacqueline Z. Pastis, and Daniel Ullucci.

Contributor(s): Kraemer, Ross Shepard, 1948- [honouree.] | Harvey, Susan Ashbrook [editor.] | DesRosiers, Nathaniel [editor.] | Lander, Shira L [editor.] | Pastis, Jacqueline Z [editor.] | Ullucci, Daniel C [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Brown Judaic studies: no. 358.Publisher: Providence, Rhode Island : Brown University, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: xix, 304 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781930675940 (hardcover : alk. paper); 1930675941 (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): Judaism -- History -- Talmudic period, 10-425 | Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 | Rome -- Religion | Women in Judaism | Women in ChristianityDDC classification: 200.93 LOC classification: BM177 | .M67 2015Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Jews and Christians in the Greco-Roman world -- Jesus' baptism by John in the context of first-century Judaism / Theodore A. Bergren -- Converts, resisters, and evangelists: Jews in the Acts of Philip V-VII / Debra J. Bucher -- Thecla and the governor: who clothes whom? / Robert Doran -- If it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck...: on not giving up the godfearers / Paula Fredriksen -- Who did what to whom? Physical violence between Jews and Christians in late antiquity / John G. Gager -- How do the Dead Sea Scrolls help us to think about gender in ancient Judaism? / Maxine L. Grossman -- The sound of angels' wings in Paradise: religious identity and the aural imagination in the Testament of Adam / Kim Haines-Eitzen -- The night Rabbi Aqiba slept with two women / Jordan D. Rosenblum -- The social formations of Paul and his Romans: synagogues, churches, and Ockham's Razor / Stanley K. Stowers -- Fashioning witnesses: "Hebrews" and "Jews" in Early Christian art / Arthur P. Urbano -- "Entrusted with the oracles of God": the fate of the Judean writings in Flavian Rome / Heidi Wendt -- Cultural creativity in Egyptian Judaism / Benjamin G. Wright --
Women in Judaism and Christianity -- Mothers, martyrs, and manly courage: the female martyr in 2 Maccabees, 4 Maccabees, and The acts of Paul and Thecla / Lynn H. Cohick -- Susanna's choice / Mary R. D'Angelo -- What is her word worth?: oath taking and women in the Mediterranean world / Nathaniel P. DesRosiers -- Optatus's account of Lucilla in Against the Donatists, or, Women are good to undermine with / Jennifer Eyl -- Gender and apocalypticism in Suzanne Collins's The hunger games trilogy / Jordan Kraemer and Shira L. Lander -- "To The Most Honorable Lady, Theophile" (Luke 1.3; Acts 1.1) / Robert A. Kraft -- "This poor widow..." (Mark 12:43): from donation to diatribe / Amy-Jill Levine -- Bayit versus Beit Nidrash: Jewish mother as teacher / Susan Marks -- In her own words: religious autobiography and agency in Lucia Brocadelli, a woman writer of early modern Italy / E. Ann Matter -- Witnesses from Medieval Mediterranean society: the reliability of Jewish women's narratives from the Cairo Genizah / Renée Levine Melammed -- Miriam's well: Rabbinic variations on a folk motif, gender views, and contemporary reception / Susan Niditch -- The shape-shifting bride: reflecting on race and ethnicity in Origen's exegesis of the Song of Songs / Elaine Pagels -- E.T. phone home: exile and gender in postexilic storytelling / Adele Reinhartz -- Her share of the cursings: grid and group, gender and demons / Sarah L. Schwarz -- Working women? Professions of Jewish women in the late ancient Levant / Karen B. Stern -- Ungendering Andrea / Daniel Ullucci.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

I. Jews and Christians in the Greco-Roman world -- Jesus' baptism by John in the context of first-century Judaism / Theodore A. Bergren -- Converts, resisters, and evangelists: Jews in the Acts of Philip V-VII / Debra J. Bucher -- Thecla and the governor: who clothes whom? / Robert Doran -- If it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck...: on not giving up the godfearers / Paula Fredriksen -- Who did what to whom? Physical violence between Jews and Christians in late antiquity / John G. Gager -- How do the Dead Sea Scrolls help us to think about gender in ancient Judaism? / Maxine L. Grossman -- The sound of angels' wings in Paradise: religious identity and the aural imagination in the Testament of Adam / Kim Haines-Eitzen -- The night Rabbi Aqiba slept with two women / Jordan D. Rosenblum -- The social formations of Paul and his Romans: synagogues, churches, and Ockham's Razor / Stanley K. Stowers -- Fashioning witnesses: "Hebrews" and "Jews" in Early Christian art / Arthur P. Urbano -- "Entrusted with the oracles of God": the fate of the Judean writings in Flavian Rome / Heidi Wendt -- Cultural creativity in Egyptian Judaism / Benjamin G. Wright --

II. Women in Judaism and Christianity -- Mothers, martyrs, and manly courage: the female martyr in 2 Maccabees, 4 Maccabees, and The acts of Paul and Thecla / Lynn H. Cohick -- Susanna's choice / Mary R. D'Angelo -- What is her word worth?: oath taking and women in the Mediterranean world / Nathaniel P. DesRosiers -- Optatus's account of Lucilla in Against the Donatists, or, Women are good to undermine with / Jennifer Eyl -- Gender and apocalypticism in Suzanne Collins's The hunger games trilogy / Jordan Kraemer and Shira L. Lander -- "To The Most Honorable Lady, Theophile" (Luke 1.3; Acts 1.1) / Robert A. Kraft -- "This poor widow..." (Mark 12:43): from donation to diatribe / Amy-Jill Levine -- Bayit versus Beit Nidrash: Jewish mother as teacher / Susan Marks -- In her own words: religious autobiography and agency in Lucia Brocadelli, a woman writer of early modern Italy / E. Ann Matter -- Witnesses from Medieval Mediterranean society: the reliability of Jewish women's narratives from the Cairo Genizah / Renée Levine Melammed -- Miriam's well: Rabbinic variations on a folk motif, gender views, and contemporary reception / Susan Niditch -- The shape-shifting bride: reflecting on race and ethnicity in Origen's exegesis of the Song of Songs / Elaine Pagels -- E.T. phone home: exile and gender in postexilic storytelling / Adele Reinhartz -- Her share of the cursings: grid and group, gender and demons / Sarah L. Schwarz -- Working women? Professions of Jewish women in the late ancient Levant / Karen B. Stern -- Ungendering Andrea / Daniel Ullucci.

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