Unreliable witnesses: religion, gender, and history in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1. Introduction 2. Four short stories: a Bacchic courtesan, the reporter from Hell, the daughters of rabbis, a Christian matron in Rome 3. Spouses of Wisdom: Philo's Therapeutae, reconsidered 4. Thecla of Iconium, reconsidered 5. Artemisia of Minorca: Gender and the Conversion of the Jews in the 5th century 6. Veturia of Rome and Rufina of Smyrna as Counterbalance: Women Officeholders in Ancient Synagogues and Gentile Adopters of Judean Practices 7. Rethinking Gender, History and Women's Religions in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean BIBLIOGRAPHY ABBREVIATIONS INDEX