Her Share of the Blessings

In this pathbreaking volume, Ross Shepard Kraemer provides the first comprehensive look at women''s religions in Greco-Roman antiquity. She vividly recreates the religious lives of early Christian, Jewish, and pagan women, with many fascinating examples: Greek women''s devotion to goddesses, rites of Roman matrons, Jewish women in rabbinic and diaspora communities, Christian women''s struggles to ...