Christianity

  • Augusto Fraschetti (ed.), Roman Women, Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press (2001 ) [Pp. vi + 249. ISBN 0-226-26093-3. $45. ISBN 0-226-26094-1.] / bmcr
  • N. Adkin, “Athanasius’ Letter to Virgins and Jerome’s Libellus de virginitate servanda,” RFIC 120 no. 2 (1992) 185-203
  • Neil Adkin, “Cyprian’s De habitu virginum and Jerome’s Libellus de virginitate servanda (epist. 22),” Classica et Mediaevalia 46, Copenhagen (1995) 237-254
  • Neil Adkin, “Self-Imitation in Jerome’s Libellus de virginitate servanda (Epist. XXII),” Athenaeum 83 no. 2 (1995) 469-485
  • Anderson, J. C., “Diptych of Probianus,” in The Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art. Third to Seventh Centuries edited by K. Weitzman, New York (1979) 55-56
  • Asiedu, F.B.A., “Following the Example of a Woman: Augustine’s Conversion to Christianity in 386,” VChr 57.3 (2003) 276-306
  • F.B.A. Asiedu, “Following the Example of a Woman: Augustine’s Conversion to Christianity in 386,” VChr 57 no. 3 (2003) 276-306
  • Bailey, J. L., “Josephus’ Portrayal of the Matriarchs,” in Josephus, Judaism, and Christianity edited by L. Feldman and G. Hata, Detroit (1987) 154 79
  • Beavis, Mary Ann, “Ancient Slavery as an Interpretive Context for the New Testament Servant Parables with Special Reference to the Unjust Steward (Luke 16:1-8),” JBL 111.1 (1992) 37
  • Boswell, John, Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century, Chicago (1980)
  • Breckenridge, J. D., “Head of Constantine I, Head of Ariadne, Diptych Leaf with Ariadne, and Medallion of Justinian I,” in The Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art. Third to Seventh Centuries edited by K. Weitzman, New York (1979) 16-18, 30-31, 31-32, 45
  • Brooten, Bernadette J., Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism, Chicago (1996) [1. Introduction; 2. Introduction: Of Sappho, Woman-Woman Marriage, and the Ways of the Egyptians; 3. “Inflame Her Liver with Love”: Greek Erotic Spells from Egypt; 4. Predetermined Erotic Orientations: Astrological Texts; 5. Women with Masculine Desires: Medical Treatments; 6. Unnatural Love: Classifying Dreams; 7. Introduction: Of British Schoolteachers and Romans; 8. Paul’s Letter to the Romans: Interpretive Frameworks and Female Homoeroticism; 9. Romans 1:18-32: A Commentary 10. Intertextual Echoes in Romans 1:18-32; 11. Tortures in Hell: Early Church Fathers on Female Homoeroticism; 12. Conclusion] / web link  / bmcr
  • Brown, K.D., “Necklace, Pectoral (no. 295), and Pectoral (no.296),” in The Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art. Third to Seventh Centuries edited by K. Weitzman, New York (1979) 310-311, 318-19, 319-321
  • Burrus, Virginia, “‘Equipped for Victory’: Ambrose and the Gendering of Orthodoxy,” JECS 4.4 (1996) 461-475 / web link
  • Caner, D.F., “The Practice of Prohibition of Self-Castration in Early Christianity,” VChr 51.4 (1997) 396-415
  • Castelli, Elizabeth, “‘I Will Make Mary Male’: Pieties of the Body and Gender Transformation of Christian Women in Late Antiquity,” in Body Guards: The Cultural Politics of Gender Ambiguity edited by Julia Epstein and Kristina Staub, London: Routledge (1991) 29-49
  • Castelli, Elizabeth A., “Gender, Theory, and The Rise of Christianity: A Response to Rodney Stark,” JECS 6.2 (1999) 227-257 / web link
  • David Cherry, The Roman World: A Sourcebook, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers (2001) [ISBN 0-631-21784-3: “The Social Order”; “Women, Marriage, and Family”; “Economy”; “Science and Medicine”; “Politics and the Government”; “Rome and the Provinces”; “The Army”; “Beyond the Frontier”; and “Pagans and Christians,” two appendices (a list of the emperors and brief information about coins, weights, and measures), a chronology, and an index] / bmcr
  • Clark, E.A., “Women, Gender, and the Study of Christian History,” ChHist 70.3 (2001) 395-426
  • Clark, Elizabeth A., “Holy Women, Holy Words: Early Christain Women, Social History, and the ‘Linguistic Turn’,” JECS 6.3 (1999) 413-430 / web link
  • Clark, Elizabeth A., “Ideology, History, and the Construction of ‘Woman’ in Late Ancient Christianity,” JECS 2 (1994) 155-184
  • G. Clark, Women in Late Antiquity. Pagan and Christian Lifestyles, Oxford (1993) / bmcr
  • Lynda L. Coon, Sacred Fictions: Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (1997) / bmcr
  • Davis, Stephen J., “Crossed Texts, Crossed Sex: Intertextuality and Gender in Early Christian Legends of Holy Women Disguised as Men,” JECS 10.1 (2002) 1-36
  • Stephen J. Davis, “Crossed Texts, Crossed Sex: Intertextuality and Gender in Early Christian Legends of Holy Women Disguised as Men,” JECS 10 no. 1 (2002) 1-36
  • De Vos, Craig Steven, “Stepmothers, Concubines and the Case of porneia in 1 Corinthians 5,” NTS 44 no. 1 (1998) 104-114
  • DeConick, A. D. and Jarl Fossum, “Stripped Before God: A New Interpretation of Logion 37 in the Gospel of Thomas,” Vigiliae Christianae 45 (1991) 123-150
  • April D. DeConick, “The Great Mystery of Marriage. Sex and Conception in Ancient Valentinian Traditions,” VCr 57 no. 3 (2003) 307-342
  • Dinkler, E., “Abbreviated Representations,” in The Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art. Third to Seventh Centuries edited by K. Weitzman, New York (1979) 74-76
  • Dodd, Brian J., “Christ’s Slave, People Pleasers and Galatians 1.10,” NTS 42.1 (1996) 90
  • Downing, F. Gerald, “A Cynic Preparation for Paul’s Gospel for Jew and Greek, Slave and Free, Male and Female,” NTS 42.3 (1996) 454
  • Feldman, L. and G. Hata, Josephus, Judaism and Christianity, Detroit (1987)
  • Bruce N. Fisk, “PORNEYEIN as Body Violation: The Unique Nature of Sexual Sin in 1 Corinthians 6.18,” NTS 42 no. 4 (1996) 540 ff.
  • Kathy L. Gaca, “Driving Aphrodite from the World: Tatian’s Encratite Principles of Sexual Renunciation,” JThS 53 no. 1 (2002) 28-52
  • Gaca, Kathy L., The Making of Fornication. Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity. Hellenistic Culture and Society, 40, Berkeley: University of California Press (2003) [ISBN 0-520-23599-1]
  • Gage, Matilda Joslyn, Woman, Church, and State: A Historical Account of the Status of Woman through the Christian Ages: With Reminiscences of the Matriarchate, New York: Arno Press (1972 [1900])
  • Garnsey, Peter, “Philo Judaeus and Slave Theory,” SCI 13 (1994) 30-45
  • Jennifer A. Glancy, Slavery in Early Christianity, NY: Oxford University Press (2002) / web link
  • Jennifer A. Glancy, “Obstacles to Slaves’ Participation in the Corinthian Church,” JBL 117 (1998) 481-501
  • Jennifer A. Glancy, “Slaves and Slavery in the Matthean Parables,” JBL 119 (2000) 69-90
  • Haines-Eitzen, Kim, “‘Girls Trained in Beautiful Writing’: Female Scribes in Roman Antiquity and Early Christianity,” JECS 6.4 (1998) 629-646 / pdf
  • Harrill, J. Albert, “Ignatius, Ad Polycarp. 4.3 and the Corporate Manumission of Christian Slaves,” JECS 1.2 (1993) 107-142
  • J. Albert Harrill, “The Manumission of Slaves in Early Christianity,” Hermeneutische Untersuchungen zur Theologie 32, Tubingen: J.C.B. Mohr (1995)
  • Harvey, Susan Ashbrook, “Sacred Bonding: Mothers and Daughters in Early Syriac Hagiography,” JECS 4.1 (1996) 27-56 / web link
  • David G. Hunter, “Augustine and the Making of Marriage in Roman North Africa,” JECS 11 no. 1 (2003) 63-85
  • Andrew S. Jacobs, “A Family Affair: Marriage, Class, and Ethics in th Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles,” JECS 7 no. 1 (1999) 105
  • King, Karen L., “Images of the Feminine in Gnosticism,” Studies in Antiquity and Christianity, Philadelphia: Fortress (1988)
  • King, Karen L., “Ridicule and Rape, Rule and Rebellion: Images of Gender in The Hypostasis of the Archons,” in Gnosticism and the Early Christian World: Festschrift for J. M. Robinson edited by J. A. Sanders and C. Hedrick, Sonoma, CA: Polebridge (1990) 1-35
  • R. S. Kraemer, Her Share of the Blessings. Women’s Religions Among Pagans, Jews, and Christians in the Greco-Roman World (1993) / bmcr
  • Kraemer, Ross S., “The Conversion of Women to Ascetic Forms of Christianity,” Signs 6 (1980/81) 298-307
  • Kraemer, Ross Shepard and Mary Rose D’Angelo, Women and Christian Origins, Oxford: Oxford University Press (1999) / web link
  • Rebecca Krawiec, Shenoute and the Women of the White Monastery: Egyptian Monasticism in Late Antiquity, New York: Oxford University Press (2002) [ISBN 0-19-512943-1] / bmcr
  • Matthew Kuefler, The Manly Eunuch. Masculinity, Gender Ambiguity, and Christian Theology in Late Antiquity, Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2001) [ISBN 0-226-45739-7] / bmcr
  • Matthew Kuefler, The Manly Eunuch. Masculinity, Gender Ambiguity, and Christian Theology in Late Antiquity, Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2001) / bmcr
  • Christiane Kunst, “Adoption und Testamentadoption in der Späten Republik,” Klio 78 (1996) 87-104
  • Ladouceur, D. J., “Josephus and Masada,” in Josephus, Judaism, and Christianity edited by L. H. Feldman and G. Hata, Detroit (1987) 95-113
  • Patrick Laurence, “Ivresse et luxure feminines: les sources classiques de Jerome,” Latomus 57 no. 4 (1998) 885-899
  • Layton, Bentley, “The Riddle of the Thunder (NHC VI,2): The Function of Paradox in a Gnostic Text from Nag Hammadi,” in Nag Hammadi, Gnosticism, and Early Christianity edited by Charles W. Hedrick and Jr. Robert Hodgson, Peabody, Mass: Hendrickson Publishers (1986) 37-54
  • N. Loraux, “What is a Goddess?,” in A History of Women in the West: From Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints edited by P. S. Pantel (1992) 11-44
  • MacDonald, Margaret Y., Early Christian Women and Pagan Opinion: The Power of the Hysterical Woman, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1996) / web link
  • Troy W. Martin, “Assessing the Johannine Epithet ‘the Mother of Jesus’,” CBQ 60 no. 1 (1998) 63-73
  • McGuire, Anne, “Women, Gender, and ‘Gnostic’ Traditions,” in Women and Christian Origins edited by Ross Kraemer and Mary Rose d’Angelo. New York: Oxford University Press (1999)
  • Donal A. McIlraith, “‘For the Fine Linen Is the Righteous Deeds of the Saints’: Works and Wife in Revelation 19:8,” CBQ 61 no. 3 (1999) 512-529
  • Meeks, Wayne A., “The Image of the Androgyne: Some Uses of a Symbol in Earliest Christianity,” HR 13 (1974) 165-208
  • Dominic Montserrat, Changing bodies, changing meanings: studies on the human body in antiquity, London: Routledge (1998) [Contributors: Angus Bowie, Gillian Clark, Richard Hawley, Lynn Meskell, Dominic Montserrat, Penelope Murray, Jane Stevenson, Nicholas Vlahogiannis, Terry Wilfong] / bmcr
  • Stephen D. Moore and Janice Capel Anderson, “Taking It Like a Man: Masculinity in 4 Maccabees,” Journal of Biblical Literature 117 (1998) 249-273
  • Mortley, Raoul, Womanhood: The Feminine in Ancient Hellenism, Gnosticism, Christianity, and Islam, Sydney: Delacroix (1981)
  • Daniel C. Olson, “‘Those Who Have Not Defiled Themselves with Women’: Revelation 14:4 and the Book of Enoch,” CBQ 59 no. 3 (1997) 492-510
  • W. Otten, “Christ’s Birth of a Virgin who Became a Wife: Flesh and Speech in Tertullian’s De carne Christi,” VChr 51 no. 3 (1997) 247-260
  • P. S. Pantel, “From Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints,” in A History of Women in the West 1: Belknap Press (1992)
  • Reid, Barbara E., Choosing the Better Part? Women in the Gospel of Luke, Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press (1996) / web link
  • A. Rousselle, “Body Politics in Ancient Rome,” in A History of Women in the West: From Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints edited by P. S. Pantel (1992) 296-336
  • J. Scheid, “The Religious Roles of Roman Women,” in A History of Women in the West: From Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints edited by P. S. Pantel (1992) 377-408
  • Schlabach, Gerald, “‘Love is the Hand of the Soul’: The Grammar of Continence in Augustine’s Doctrine of Christian Love,” JECS 6.1 (1999) 59-92 / web link
  • Christiane Schmerl and Cordula Ritter, “Stand und Bedeutung der Matriarchats-debatte,” in Philosophische Beitr�ge zur Frauenforschung edited by Ruth Grossmass and Christiane Schmerl, Bochum: Germinal-Verlag (1981) 83-98
  • Teresa M. Shaw, “Creation, Virginity, and Diet in Fourth Century Christianity: Basil of Ancyra’s On the True Purity of Virginity,” Gender and History 9.3 (1997) 579-596
  • Shaw, Teresa M., The Burden of the Flesh: Fasting and Sexuality in Early Christianity, Minneapolis: Fortess Press (1998)
  • K. J. Shelton., “Missorium of Theodosius,” in The Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art. Third to Seventh Centuries edited by K. Weitzman, New York (1979) 74-76
  • G. Sissa, “The Sexual Philosophies of Plato and Aristotle,” in A History of Women in the West: From Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints edited by P. S. Pantel (1992) 46-81
  • G. Sissa, “Marriage in Ancient Greece,” in A History of Women in the West: From Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints edited by P. S. Pantel (1992) 233-294
  • Marvin A. Sweeney, Review of Biblical Literature [searchable database] / web link
  • Joan E. Taylor, “The Twelve and the Apostles: The Traditions of Paul and the Synoptic Gospels,” Women-Church:An Australian Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 22: April (1998) 36-41
  • Y. Thomas, “The Division of the Sexes in Roman Law,” in A History of Women in the West: From Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints edited by P. S. Pantel (1992) 83-137
  • D. Trout, “Retextualizing Lucretia: Cultural Subversion in The City of God,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 2.1 (1994) 53-70
  • D. Trout, “Retextualizing Lucretia: Cultural Subversion in The City of God,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 2.1 (1994) 53-70
  • Tsevat, Matitiahu, “The Hebrew Slave According to Deuteronomy 15:12-18: His Lot and the Value of His Work, with Special Attention to the Meaning of hgsm,” JBL 113.4 (1994) 587
  • Gunhild Viden, “St. Jerome On Female Chastity: Subjugating the Elements of Desire,” SO 73 (1998) 139-157
  • Heidi Vierow, “Feminine and Masculine Voices in the Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicitas,” Latomus 58 no. 3 (1999) 600-619
  • Volbach, W., and M. Hirmer, Early Christian Art, New York (1961)
  • Harold C. Washington, Susan Lochrie Graham and Pamela Thimmes, Escaping Eden: New Feminist Perspectives on the Bible, Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Academic Press (1999) / web link
  • Weitzmann, K., Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art. Third to Seventh Century, New York (1979)
  • Weitzmann, K. and H. L. Kessler, The Frescoes of the Dura Synagogue and Christian Art, Washington (1990)
  • Wim J.C. Weren, “The Five Women in Matthew’s Genealogy,” CBQ 59 no. 2 (1997) 288-305
  • Ritva H. Williams, “The Mother of Jesus at Cana: A Social-Science Interpretation of John 2:1-12,” CBQ 59 no. 4 (1997) 679-692
  • Serena Zabin, “Iudae Benemerenti,” Phoenix 50 no. 3-4 (1997) [This study of Jewish funerary inscriptions from the western Empire demonstrates that Jewish cultural practices and ideals about gender differed in part from those of their pagan and Christian neighbors. A study of the epitaphs that give age-at-death as well as those that indicate the dedicator of the stone offers intriguing possibilities about the centrality of Jewish women’s place in their community. Mishnaic beliefs might provide part of the explanation for the unique content of these stones, but the inscriptions in turn give a window onto a world of experience occasionally at odds with that world constructed by the Mishnah. ]
  • L. B. Zaidman, “Pandora’s Daughters and Rituals in Grecian Cities,” in A History of Women in the West: From Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints edited by P. S. Pantel (1992) 338-376