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5 days ago · Feminist theologian Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza wrote in her seminal work In Memory of Her: a Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins that many of Jesus' followers were women. The Pauline epistles in the New Testament provide some of the earliest documentary sources of women as true missionary partners in expanding the Jesus ...
4 days ago · Many of the most powerful women in Ancient Rome emerged from the Julio-Claudian dynasty, the family that ruled the empire from 27 BCE to 68 CE. These women often gained influence through their relationships with male relatives, particularly as mothers, wives, and sisters of emperors.
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6 days ago · Some public rituals could be conducted only by women, and women formed what is perhaps Rome's most famous priesthood, the state-supported Vestals, who tended Rome's sacred hearth for centuries, until disbanded under Christian domination.
May 16, 2024 · The Repentant St. Peter by El Greco. Photo: The Phillips Collection. Jesus’ chief disciple, Peter (also called Simon Peter or Cephas), has been associated with Rome for nearly 2,000 years. The earliest testimony to the apostle Peter’s presence in Rome is a letter from a Christian deacon named Gaius. Writing probably toward the end of the ...
5 days ago · The volume’s chronological scope, as a result, stretches over more than a millennium (500 BCE – 650 CE). The papers offer a balanced consideration of both East and West, and deal with a large variety of source material. The result is a surprisingly insightful assortment of thirteen articles by colleagues, students, and friends of the honorand.
May 5, 2024 · In three parts this book argues for the emergence and centrality of a concept of the everyday in the Roman world. Part one is a history of day-ordering technologies that allowed the day to become a unit of socio-cultural time, an interface between nature and the myriad social purposes of days, not least as an ordering device for empire.
5 days ago · W. G. Runciman writes: "If there was a single characteristic of the Christian religion which distinguished it from all its competitors, Judaism included, it was the willingness, at least in principle, of Christians not only to accept converts from wherever they came [such as slaves and women] but to display, or at least be prepared to display ...
