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First converts: rich pagan women and the rhetoric of mission in early Judaism and Christianity

Shelly Matthews c2001 © Stanford University Press
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  • 9780804735926 (hardcover)
  • 9780804780407 (ebook)
Subject
  • Women's Studies
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  • Frontmatter
  • ABBREVIATIONS OF CLASSICAL WORKS (page xiii)
  • INTRODUCTION (page 1)
  • 1 CRIMES OF PASSION: RELIGION, SEX, AND STATE SUBVERSION IN ANTIQUITIES 18:65‒84 (page 10)
  • 2 LADIES' AID: GENTILE NOBLEWOMEN AS SAVIORS AND BENEFACTORS IN THE ANTIQUITIES (page 29)
  • 3 "MORE THAN A FEW GREEK WOMEN OF HIGH STANDING": "GOD‐FEARING" NOBLEWOMEN IN ACTS (page 51)
  • 4 FIRST CONVERTS: ACTS 16 AND THE LEGITIMATING FUNCTION OF HIGH‐STANDING WOMEN IN MISSIONARY PROPAGANDA (page 72)
  • CONCLUSION (page 96)
  • ABBREVIATIONS OF WORKS CITED (page 103)
  • NOTES (page 105)
  • WORKS CITED (page 143)
  • INDEX (page 161)
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