A Most Reliable Witness: Essays in Honor of Ross Shepard Kraemer
edited by Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Nathaniel DesRosiers, Shira L. Lander, Jacqueline Z. Pastis and Daniel Ullucci
SBL Press, 2015 eISBN: 978-1-930675-96-4 | Cloth: 978-1-930675-94-0 Library of Congress Classification BM177.M67 2015 Dewey Decimal Classification 200.93
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Celebrate a trailblazer in the areas of women and re
Celebrate a trailblazer in the areas of women and religion, Jews and Judaism, and earliest Christianity in the ancient Mediterranean
Ross Kraemer is Professor Emerita in the Department of Religious Studies at Brown University. This volume of essays, conceived and produced by students, colleagues, and friends bears witness to the breadth of her own scholarly interests. Contributors include Theodore A. Bergren, Debra Bucher, Lynn Cohick, Mary Rose D’Angelo, Nathaniel P. DesRosiers, Robert Doran, Jennifer Eyl, Paula Fredriksen, John G. Gager, Maxine Grossman, Kim Haines-Eitzen, Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Jordan Kraemer, Robert A. Kraft, Shira L. Lander, Amy-Jill Levine, Susan Marks, E. Ann Matter, Renee Levine Melammed, Susan Niditch, Elaine Pagels, Adele Reinhartz, Jordan Rosenblum, Sarah Schwarz, Karen B. Stern, Stanley K. Stowers, Daniel Ullucci, Arthur Urbano, Heidi Wendt, and Benjamin G. Wright.
Features:
Articles that examine both ancient and modern texts in cross-cultural and trans-historical perspective
Twenty-eight original essays on ancient Judaism, Christianity, and women in the Greco-Roman world
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Susan Ashbrook Harvey is Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence, Willard Prescott and Annie McClelland Smith Professor of History and Religion, and Chair of Religious Studies at Brown University.
Nathaniel DesRosiers is Associate Professor in Religious Studies at Stonehill College, where he teaches courses in New Testament, and Early Christianity.
Shira L. Lander is Professor of Practice and Director of Jewish Studies, Southern Methodist University.
Jacqueline Pastis is Associate Professor of Religion at La Salle University.
Daniel Ullucci is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Rhodes College.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Cover
Contents
Abbreviations
Contributors
Preface
Jews and Christians in the Greco-Roman World
Jesus’ Baptism by John in the Context of First-Century Judaism
Converts, Resisters, and Evangelists
Thecla and the Governor
“If It Looks like a Duck, and It Quaks like a Duck…"
Who Did What to Whom?
How Do the Dead Sea Scrolls Help Us to THink about Gender in Ancient Judaism?
The Sound of Angels’ Wings in Paradise
The Night Rabbi Aqiba Slept with Two Women
The Social Formations of Paul and His Romans
Fashioning Witnesses
“Entrusted with the Oracles of God”
Cultural Creativity in Egyptian Judaism
Women in Judaism and Christianity
Mothers, Martyrs, and Manly Courage
Susanna’s Choice
What Is Her Word Worth?
Optatus’s Account of Lucilla in Against the Donatists
Gender and Apocalypticism in Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games Trilogy
Celebrate a trailblazer in the areas of women and re
Celebrate a trailblazer in the areas of women and religion, Jews and Judaism, and earliest Christianity in the ancient Mediterranean
Ross Kraemer is Professor Emerita in the Department of Religious Studies at Brown University. This volume of essays, conceived and produced by students, colleagues, and friends bears witness to the breadth of her own scholarly interests. Contributors include Theodore A. Bergren, Debra Bucher, Lynn Cohick, Mary Rose D’Angelo, Nathaniel P. DesRosiers, Robert Doran, Jennifer Eyl, Paula Fredriksen, John G. Gager, Maxine Grossman, Kim Haines-Eitzen, Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Jordan Kraemer, Robert A. Kraft, Shira L. Lander, Amy-Jill Levine, Susan Marks, E. Ann Matter, Renee Levine Melammed, Susan Niditch, Elaine Pagels, Adele Reinhartz, Jordan Rosenblum, Sarah Schwarz, Karen B. Stern, Stanley K. Stowers, Daniel Ullucci, Arthur Urbano, Heidi Wendt, and Benjamin G. Wright.
Features:
Articles that examine both ancient and modern texts in cross-cultural and trans-historical perspective
Twenty-eight original essays on ancient Judaism, Christianity, and women in the Greco-Roman world
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Susan Ashbrook Harvey is Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence, Willard Prescott and Annie McClelland Smith Professor of History and Religion, and Chair of Religious Studies at Brown University.
Nathaniel DesRosiers is Associate Professor in Religious Studies at Stonehill College, where he teaches courses in New Testament, and Early Christianity.
Shira L. Lander is Professor of Practice and Director of Jewish Studies, Southern Methodist University.
Jacqueline Pastis is Associate Professor of Religion at La Salle University.
Daniel Ullucci is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Rhodes College.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Cover
Contents
Abbreviations
Contributors
Preface
Jews and Christians in the Greco-Roman World
Jesus’ Baptism by John in the Context of First-Century Judaism
Converts, Resisters, and Evangelists
Thecla and the Governor
“If It Looks like a Duck, and It Quaks like a Duck…"
Who Did What to Whom?
How Do the Dead Sea Scrolls Help Us to THink about Gender in Ancient Judaism?
The Sound of Angels’ Wings in Paradise
The Night Rabbi Aqiba Slept with Two Women
The Social Formations of Paul and His Romans
Fashioning Witnesses
“Entrusted with the Oracles of God”
Cultural Creativity in Egyptian Judaism
Women in Judaism and Christianity
Mothers, Martyrs, and Manly Courage
Susanna’s Choice
What Is Her Word Worth?
Optatus’s Account of Lucilla in Against the Donatists
Gender and Apocalypticism in Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games Trilogy