First Converts : Rich Pagan Women and the Rhetoric of Mission in Early Judaism and Christianity.

It has often been said that rich pagan women, much more so than men, were attracted both to early Judaism and Christianity. This book provides a new reading of sources from which this truism springs, focusing on two texts from the turn of the first century, Josephus's Antiquities and Luke'...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Matthews, Shelly
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2001.
Series:Contraversions (Stanford, Calif.)
Subjects:
Josephus, Flavius. > Antiquitates Judaicae.
Bible. > Acts > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Antiquitates Judaicae (Josephus, Flavius)
Bible. > Acts
Evangelistic work.
Proselytizing > Judaism.
Women in Christianity > Historiography.
Women in Judaism > Historiography.
Évangélisation.
Prosélytisme > Judaïsme.
Femmes dans le christianisme > Historiographie.
Femmes dans le judaïsme > Historiographie.
Evangelistic work
Proselytizing > Judaism
Women in Judaism > Historiography
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Pages:1 to 25
  • Pages:26 to 50
  • Pages:51 to 75
  • Pages:76 to 100
  • Pages:101 to 125
  • Pages:126 to 150
  • Pages:151 to 175
  • Pages:176 to 181.

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