01181nam a2200301 a 450000500170000000800200001702000180003704100080005508200160006308200130007910000210009210000110011324500190012424500830014324500200022626000110024626000310025726000090028830000110029730000290030849000470033752003020038465000220068665000120070865000590072065000220077985600780080120260119071343.02024-04-13 16:31:12  a9780804735926  aeng  a296.6909015  bM438-S54  aMatthews, Shelly  eAuthor  aFirst Converts  bRich Pagan Women and the Rhetoric of Mission in Early Judaism and Christianity  cShelly Matthews  aU.S.A.  bStandford University Press  c2001  a164tr.  bhardcover, illustrations  aContraversions: Jews and Other Differences  aIt 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.  aEvangelistic work  aJudaism  aBible -- N.T -- Acts -- Criticism, interpretation, etc  aJosephus, Flavius4 uhttps://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/14326/first-converts.jpgyCover Image