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Informationen zum Autor Mark D. Ellison is associate professor in the Department of Ancient Scripture at Brigham Young University. Catherine Gines Taylor is Hugh W. Nibley Postdoctoral Fellow at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University. Carolyn Osiek is Charles Fischer Professor of New Testament emerita at Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Divine Bridal Chamber: 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 ...
