{"product_id":"her-share-of-the-blessings-ross-shepard-kraemer-9780195086706","title":"Her Share of the Blessings: Women's Religions Among Pagans, Jews, and Christians in the Greco-Roman World","description":"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 exercise authority and autonomy, and women's roles as leaders in the full spectrum of Greco-Roman religions. In every case, Kraemer reveals the connections between the social constraints under which women lived, and their religious beliefs and practices.\u003cbr\u003e The relationship among female autonomy, sexuality, and religion emerges as a persistent theme. Analyzing the monastic Jewish Therapeutae and various Christian communities, Kraemer demonstrates the paradoxical liberation which women achieved by rejection of sexuality, the body, and the female. In the epilogue, Kraemer pursues the disturbing implications such findings have for contemporary women.\u003cbr\u003e Based on an astonishing variety of primary sources, \u003cem\u003eHer Share of the Blessings\u003c\/em\u003e is an insightful work that goes beyond the limitations of previous scholarship to provide a more accurate portrait of women in the Greco-Roman world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ross Shepard Kraemer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0195086708\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195086706\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/20\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.52w x 0.71d","brand":"Ross Shepard Kraemer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44119404183807,"sku":"9780195086706","price":37.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_77833beb-6206-4b31-9296-c64269d9e1a0.jpg?v=1687409171","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/her-share-of-the-blessings-ross-shepard-kraemer-9780195086706","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}