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First Converts

Rich Pagan Women and the Rhetoric of Mission in Early Judaism and Christianity [Hardback]

by Shelly Matthews

Author
Shelly Matthews
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Published
October 2002

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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. The book studies representation, analyzing the repeated portrayal of rich women as aiding and/or converting to early Judaism in its various forms. It also shows how these sources can be used in reconstructing women s history, thus engaging current feminist debates about the relationship of rhetorical presentation of women in texts to historical reality.