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