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By Ross Shepard Kraemer

ISBN-10: 0195086708

ISBN-13: 9780195086706

During this pathbreaking quantity, Ross Shepard Kraemer presents the 1st accomplished examine women's religions in Greco-Roman antiquity. She vividly recreates the non secular lives of early Christian, Jewish, and pagan ladies, with many desirable examples: Greek women's devotion to goddesses, rites of Roman matrons, Jewish girls in rabbinic and diaspora groups, Christian women's struggles to workout authority and autonomy, and women's roles as leaders within the complete spectrum of Greco-Roman religions. In each case, Kraemer unearths the connections among the social constraints lower than which girls lived, and their non secular ideals and practices.
The dating between girl autonomy, sexuality, and faith emerges as a power subject. examining the monastic Jewish Therapeutae and diverse Christian groups, Kraemer demonstrates the paradoxical liberation which girls completed by way of rejection of sexuality, the physique, and the feminine. within the epilogue, Kraemer pursues the demanding implications such findings have for modern women.
Based on an excellent number of fundamental resources, Her proportion of the benefits is an insightful paintings that is going past the constraints of earlier scholarship to supply a extra exact portrait of ladies within the Greco-Roman global.

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Women, serfs and slaves (especially released slaves) are inevitably pinned only weakly into the central structure of their society. . Their options are few. They experience strong grid. Therefore they are susceptible to religious movements which celebrate this experience. "39 Douglas appears to view the commonalities of women's social experiences as transcending any differences between them. Women, like serfs and slaves, constitute a universally observable class, whose characteristics will not vary significantly over time or from one society to another.

This raises the dilemma that has confronted modern scholars in their evaluation of the Bacchae as evidence for actual religious practice. E. Athens or earlier. In fact, there are at least two problems here: first, whether the Bacchae reflects what women actually did in or before Euripides's own time, and second, whether the Bacchae itself 38 Her Share of the Blessings becomes the source from which subsequent Bacchic ritual is derived. E. R. 10 The Bacchae is somewhat ambiguous on the participation of men in the ecstatic, private mysteries of Dionysos, The speech of the god in the opening lines strongly suggests that only women were compelled to worship Dionysos in this fashion; the scene so graphically relayed by the terrified messenger confirms the absence of men, Pentheus's tragic downfall is occasioned by his illicit presence, spying on women's secret rites disguised in female clothing, which reinforces the notion that men had no business on the mountains with the women.

They experience strong grid. Therefore they are susceptible to religious movements which celebrate this experience. "39 Douglas appears to view the commonalities of women's social experiences as transcending any differences between them. Women, like serfs and slaves, constitute a universally observable class, whose characteristics will not vary significantly over time or from one society to another. All three, women, serfs, and slaves, share in common the social experience of isolation and insulation.

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