Shelly Matthews. First Converts: Rich Pagan Women and the Rhetoric of Mission in Early Judaism and Christianity. Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. x, 164 pp.
In this very balanced and thought-provoking book, Shelly Matthews studies a series of Greek and Roman texts concerning Gentile women of high standing who were attracted to Judaism and Christianity. These texts, in particular Josephus' novelistic conversion and expulsion story in Antiquities 18....
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University of Pennsylvania Press
2003
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AJS review
Year: 2003, Volume: 27, Issue: 2, Pages: 314-316 |
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