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It has often been said that rich pagan women, much more so than men, were attracted both to early Judaism and Christianity.

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. The book studies representation, analyzing the repeated portrayal of rich wome It has often been said that rich pagan women, much more so than men, were attracted both to early Judaism and Christianity.

In this very balanced and thought-provoking book, Shelly Matthews studies a series of Greek and Roman texts concerning Gentile women of high standing who were attracted to Judaism and Christianity

In this very balanced and thought-provoking book, Shelly Matthews studies a series of Greek and Roman texts concerning Gentile women of high standing who were attracted to Judaism and Christianity. These texts, in particular Josephus' novelistic conversion and expulsion story in Antiquities 1. 5–84, are well known and often discussed, but they have rarely been set into a wider framework. Matthews argues that Josephus, Luke, and other religious apologists, in recounting episodes of upper-class women's associations with their communities, followed a rhetorical strategy.

The article analyses a number of late antique Christian sources that use choreutic gesture to highlight the cultural alterity of pagan cults, Judaism and heretical movements.

Rich pagan women and the rhetoric of mission in early Judaism and Christianity. Jews and Other Differences. The article analyses a number of late antique Christian sources that use choreutic gesture to highlight the cultural alterity of pagan cults, Judaism and heretical movements. The Christian intellectual critique of dancing is not interpreted as an aversion to the practice per se, but as part of an anthropological process that encouraged men to become perfect imitators of the angelic choreia in the.

Matthews, Shelly (2001). First Converts: Rich Pagan Women and the Rhetoric of Mission in Early Judaism and Christianity. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. p. 72. ISBN 0804735921. Junginger, Horst (2008). The Study of Religion Under the Impact of Fascism.

First Converts: Rich Pagan Women and the Rhetoric of Mission in Early Judaism and Christianity. Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences. Stanford University Press, 2001.

First Converts : Rich Pagan Women and the Rhetoric of Mission in Early Judaism and Christianity. It has often been said that rich pagan women, much more so than men, were attracted both to early Judaism and Christianity. The book studies representation, analyzing the repeated portrayal of rich women as aiding and/or converting to early Judaism in its various forms.

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Shelly Matthews is Professor of New Testament at the Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University. She teaches courses on Pauline Literature, the Acts of the Apostles, and Feminist Biblical Interpretation.

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