Matthews, Shelly <br/><br/>
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 .
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780804735926 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Evangelistic work<br/>Judaism<br/>Bible -- N.T -- Acts -- Criticism, interpretation, etc<br/>Josephus, Flavius
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>296.6909015  / M438-S54