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This collection of eleven new essays presents fresh, illuminating research by scholars who comparatively examine material, visual, and literary evidence to recover women's religious experiences, perspectives, and activities in antiquity-perspectives often missing or underrepresented in the literary record.
List of contents
Introduction
Mark D. Ellison, Catherine Gines Taylor, and Carolyn Osiek
1.Keynote: Between the Holy and the Ordinary: Women's Lives in Early Christianity
Carolyn Osiek
2.Transferring and Transforming Religious Identity Abroad: The Personal Adornment of an Egyptian Woman in Canaan
Krystal V. L. Pierce
3.Besieged Maternity: Reading Textual Cannibalism in the Hebrew Bible through Material Culture
Susannah M. Larry
4.Material Expression and Mantic Performance: An Examination of Women's Religious Experience at the Time of Josiah
Amanda Colleen Brown
5."Part of the Same Miracle": Women and Visual Art in the Dura Europos Synagogue
Sarah E. G. Fein
6.Female Experience at the Tomb: Ritual Commemoration and Sarcophagus Imagery
Sarah Madole Lewis
7.Assessing the Roles of Women in New Syrian Funerary Reliefs in Japanese Collections
Kerry Hull and Lincoln H. Blumell
8.Foreseeing the Feminine Divine: A Household of Mosaics from Shahba-Philippopolis
Catherine Gines Taylor
9.Reimagining and Reimaging Eve in Early Christianity
Mark D. Ellison
10.Female Materialities at the Altar: Mary's Priestly Motherhood and Women's Eucharistic Experience in Late Antique and Byzantine Churches
Maria Evangelatou
11.Rings on her Fingers: Merovingian Rings and Religion in Late Antiquity
Isabel Moreira
About the author
Edited by Mark D. Ellison; Catherine Gines Taylor and Carolyn Osiek - Contributions by Carolyn Osiek; Krystal V. L. Pierce; Susannah M. Larry; Amanda Colleen Brown; Sarah E.G. Fein; Sarah Madole Lewis; Kerry Hull; Lincoln H. Blumell; Catherine Gines Taylo
Summary
This collection of eleven new essays presents fresh, illuminating research by scholars who comparatively examine material, visual, and literary evidence to recover women’s religious experiences, perspectives, and activities in antiquity—perspectives often missing or underrepresented in the literary record.
