A native of New York City, Ross Shepard Kraemer majored in Religion at Smith College and holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Religion from Princeton University. She is the author and editor of numerous books and scholarly articles on women's religions in the Greco-Roman world, particularly Christian and Jewish women. She is Professor of Religious Studies and Judaic Studies at Brown University, where she has taught since 2000.

This is stimulating, enjoyable book ... Kraemer is a fine scholar, delightfully readable and her histories of historiography will be particularly illuminating to students.

• Acknowledgments ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Four short stories: a Bacchic courtesan, the reporter from Hell, the daughters of rabbis, a Christian matron in Rome ; 3. Spouses of Wisdom: Philo's Therapeutae, reconsidered ; 4. Thecla of Iconium, reconsidered ; 5. Artemisia of Minorca: Gender and the Conversion of the Jews in the 5th century ; 6. Veturia of Rome and Rufina of Smyrna as Counterbalance: Women Officeholders in Ancient Synagogues and Gentile Adopters of Judean Practices ; 7. Rethinking Gender, History and Women's Religions in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean ; Bibliography ; Abbreviations ; Index

A native of New York City, Ross Shepard Kraemer majored in Religion at Smith College and holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Religion from Princeton University. She is the author and editor of numerous books and scholarly articles on women's religions in the Greco-Roman world, particularly Christian and Jewish women. She is Professor of Religious Studies and Judaic Studies at Brown University, where she has taught since 2000.

This is stimulating, enjoyable book ... Kraemer is a fine scholar, delightfully readable and her histories of historiography will be particularly illuminating to students.

• Acknowledgments ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Four short stories: a Bacchic courtesan, the reporter from Hell, the daughters of rabbis, a Christian matron in Rome ; 3. Spouses of Wisdom: Philo's Therapeutae, reconsidered ; 4. Thecla of Iconium, reconsidered ; 5. Artemisia of Minorca: Gender and the Conversion of the Jews in the 5th century ; 6. Veturia of Rome and Rufina of Smyrna as Counterbalance: Women Officeholders in Ancient Synagogues and Gentile Adopters of Judean Practices ; 7. Rethinking Gender, History and Women's Religions in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean ; Bibliography ; Abbreviations ; Index

A native of New York City, Ross Shepard Kraemer majored in Religion at Smith College and holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Religion from Princeton University. She is the author and editor of numerous books and scholarly articles on women's religions in the Greco-Roman world, particularly Christian and Jewish women. She is Professor of Religious Studies and Judaic Studies at Brown University, where she has taught since 2000.

This is stimulating, enjoyable book ... Kraemer is a fine scholar, delightfully readable and her histories of historiography will be particularly illuminating to students.

• Acknowledgments ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Four short stories: a Bacchic courtesan, the reporter from Hell, the daughters of rabbis, a Christian matron in Rome ; 3. Spouses of Wisdom: Philo's Therapeutae, reconsidered ; 4. Thecla of Iconium, reconsidered ; 5. Artemisia of Minorca: Gender and the Conversion of the Jews in the 5th century ; 6. Veturia of Rome and Rufina of Smyrna as Counterbalance: Women Officeholders in Ancient Synagogues and Gentile Adopters of Judean Practices ; 7. Rethinking Gender, History and Women's Religions in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean ; Bibliography ; Abbreviations ; Index