Ross Shepard Kraemer: 3 books
Her Share of the Blessings
Women's Religions among Pagans, Jews, and Christians in the Greco-Roman World
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 1994
In this pathbreaking volume, Ross Shepard Kraemer provides the first comprehensive look at women's religions in Greco-Roman antiquity. She vividly recreates the religious lives of early Christian, Jewish, and pagan women, with many fascinating examples: Greek women's devotion to goddesses, rites of...
Unreliable Witnesses
Religion, Gender, and History in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
In her latest book, Ross Shepard Kraemer shows how her mind has changed or remained the same since the publication of her ground-breaking study, Her Share of the Blessings: Women's Religions Among Pagans, Jews and Christians in the Greco-Roman World (OUP 1992). Unreliable Witnesses scrutinizes more...
When Aseneth Met Joseph
A Late Antique Tale of the Biblical Patriarch and His Egyptian Wife, Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 1998
This is the study of an anonymous ancient work, usually called Joseph and Aseneth, which narrates the transformation of the daughter of an Egyptian priest into an acceptable spouse for the biblical Joseph, whose marriage to Aseneth is given brief notice in Genesis. Kraemer takes issue with the scholarly...