Material Culture and Women's Religious Experience in Antiquity

An Interdisciplinary Symposium

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Av Mark D. Ellison, Catherine Gines Taylor, Carolyn Osiek

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How can material artifacts help illuminate the religious lives of women in antiquity? In what ways do archaeological and art historical studies recover women’s religious perspectives and experiences that the literary record misses or underrepresents? The authors of the essays in this volume set out to answer such questions in fascinating, new case studies of women and ancient religions in the Near East and Mediterranean world. They cover a broad historical, geographic, and religious spectrum as they explore women’s lives from the time of ancient Egypt in the second millennium BCE into the early medieval period, from the Syrian Desert to Western Europe, in the religious traditions of Egypt, Canaan, Greece, Rome, ancient Israel, early Judaism, and early Christianity. Working at the intersections of religion, archaeology, art history, and women’s history, these authors make fresh contributions to interdisciplinary studies, and their essays will be of interest to students and scholars across these academic fields.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-09-27
Mått162 x 229 x 29 mm
Vikt780 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor362
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781793611932

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IntroductionMark D. Ellison, Catherine Gines Taylor, and Carolyn Osiek1.Keynote: Between the Holy and the Ordinary: Women’s Lives in Early ChristianityCarolyn Osiek2.Transferring and Transforming Religious Identity Abroad: The Personal Adornment of an Egyptian Woman in CanaanKrystal V. L. Pierce3.Besieged Maternity: Reading Textual Cannibalism in the Hebrew Bible through Material CultureSusannah M. Larry4.Material Expression and Mantic Performance: An Examination of Women’s Religious Experience at the Time of JosiahAmanda Colleen Brown5.“Part of the Same Miracle”: Women and Visual Art in the Dura Europos SynagogueSarah E. G. Fein6.Female Experience at the Tomb: Ritual Commemoration and Sarcophagus ImagerySarah Madole Lewis7.Assessing the Roles of Women in New Syrian Funerary Reliefs in Japanese CollectionsKerry Hull and Lincoln H. Blumell8.Foreseeing the Divine Bridal Chamber: A Household of Mosaics from Shahba-PhilippopolisCatherine Gines Taylor9.Reimagining and Reimaging

The fascinating essays in this book make an important contribution to the scholarship seeking to recover women’s religious experience in antiquity. They show how archaeological and iconographic evidence can be invaluable in the quest to recover the lived experience of women in the past—from ancient Egypt to late ancient Christianity. Using material remains, the authors provide compelling arguments about women’s religiosity that often differ from the impression one gets from texts alone. This readable and well-illustrated book is a must for both scholars and general readers.