First Converts Rich Pagan Women and the Rhetoric of Mission in Early Judaism and Christianity
Matthews, Shelly
First Converts Rich Pagan Women and the Rhetoric of Mission in Early Judaism and Christianity Shelly Matthews - U.S.A. Standford University Press 2001 - 164tr. hardcover, illustrations - Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences .
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.
9780804735926
Evangelistic work
Judaism
Bible -- N.T -- Acts -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Josephus, Flavius
296.6909015 / M438-S54
First Converts Rich Pagan Women and the Rhetoric of Mission in Early Judaism and Christianity Shelly Matthews - U.S.A. Standford University Press 2001 - 164tr. hardcover, illustrations - Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences .
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.
9780804735926
Evangelistic work
Judaism
Bible -- N.T -- Acts -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Josephus, Flavius
296.6909015 / M438-S54