Sorrows of Mattidia

Curtis Hutt is Associate Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA, and the Founding Executive Director of the Leonard and Shirley Goldstein Center for Human Rights.Jenni Irving is an epigrapher and lecturer of Ancient Languages and Classical Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and the University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA. She also is an instructional designer for a Fortune 500 company.

• List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Part I Women of the Clementina; Chapter 1: What is The Sorrows of Mattidia?; Chapter 2: Women of the Clementina; Chapter 3: Women and gender relations in the community of Peter; Chapter 4: Sylvia’s gift; Part II The Sorrows of Mattidia; Chapter 5: The Sorrows of Mattidia: Author, text, bibliography, and translation; Chapter 6: The Sorrows of Mattidia – Translated by Jenni Irving with Curtis Hutt; Bibliography; Index

"The Sorrows of Mattidia is a fictional story in the Ps-Clementine writings that narrates the adventures and conversion of a noble woman to Christianity. The authors’ approach to these texts with their complex conceptual and methodological problems is well argued, and a new translation based on a text-critical reconstruction of the Greek Homilies is a welcome addition. These texts from the Ps-Clementines are generally interesting and will hopefully generate worthwhile discussions among scholars and students."- Annewies van den Hoek, Harvard University, USA