Ephesian women in Greco-Roman and Early Christian perspective
Elif Hilal Karaman
Bok · Engelsk · 2018
| Omfang | xii, 193 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | "The book is based on my doctoral dissertation "A Change in Perspective: a Comparison Between Early Christian Literature and Greco-Roman Evidence on the lives of Ephesian Women ... University of Manchester in 2015."-- Preface. - Introduction -- History of scholarship -- Social history of Ephesus -- Marriage -- Widows and other single women -- Women in social life -- Teachers -- Conclusion.. - In this volume, Elif Hilal Karaman examines the lives of Ephesian women in their historical and social contexts, considering in particular their roles as mothers, wives, teachers, and individuals in the private and public spheres. She presents Greco-Roman and early Christian sources relevant to Ephesus and relating to women, including more than 300 Ephesian inscriptions, and analyses them comparatively. By doing this she illuminates the impact of early Christianity upon the roles of women. The evidence presented demonstrates the extent to which early Christian authors utilized Greco-Roman cultural elements to construct a social background for the nascent Christian communities for whom they wrote. Elif Hilal Karaman's work thus advocates for the interpretation of early Christian texts in conversation with local archaeological and literary evidence in order to develop more nuanced understandings of the social and historical contexts of these important works. --
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| ISBN | 9783161556531
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