First Converts: Rich Pagan Women and the Rhetoric of Mission in Early Judaism and Christianity
Shelly Matthews | 2002-10-01 00:00:00 | Stanford University Press | 184 | Ancient
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.
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