First Converts <subTitle>Rich Pagan Women and the Rhetoric of Mission in Early Judaism and Christianity</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Matthews, Shelly</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">1:1</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Standford University Press</publisher> <dateIssued>2001</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>164tr.</extent> <extent>hardcover, illustrations</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>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.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Shelly Matthews</note> <subject> <topic>Evangelistic work</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Judaism</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Bible -- N.T -- Acts -- Criticism, interpretation, etc</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Josephus, Flavius</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">296.6909015</classification> <classification authority="ddc">M438-S54</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9780804735926</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/14326/first-converts.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/14326/first-converts.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2024-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071343.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>