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

By:

Matthews, Shelly

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences SeriesPublisher: Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2002Copyright date: ©2001Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (181 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780804780407

Subject(s):

History

Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: First ConvertsDDC classification:

296.6/9/09015

LOC classification:

BM729

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Summary: 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's Acts.

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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's Acts.

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