Download or read book Roman Wives Roman Widows written by Bruce W. Winter and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late Republic and early Empire, the new woman' made her appearance. This was a wife or widow of means who took part in life outside the walls of her house, including wider society, business and extra-marital affairs.
Download or read book Roman Wives Roman Widows The Appearance of New Women and the Pauline Communiti written by Bruce W. Winter and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first century A.D. a "new" kind of Roman woman appeared whose provocative dress and decorum departed radically from the image of modesty that epitomized the traditional wife or widow. How did the early church respond? In this fascinating book Bruce Winter explores for the first time the impact of the new women on Christian wives and widows living in the early Pauline communities. Combining sound knowledge of the Graeco-Roman world and of Paul's writings, Winter shows how changing social mores of women -- changes that even drew sharp responses from Roman legislators and teachers -- help to explain controversial texts in the New Testament. According to Winter, in the Roman world you were what you wore. Grasping this underlying reality it crucial to understanding what was at stake in Scriptures in 1 Corinthians that addresses marriage veils, discussions of dress code and the activities of young widows in 1 Timothy, and Titus's call to older women to instruct new wives. Based on close investigation of Graeco-Roman society, this book makes significant contributions both to our understanding of first-century life and the social background of the Bible.
Download or read book Roman Realities written by Finley Hooper and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the major primary sources of Roman history, this book recalls the experiences of the ancient Romans through a thousand years of their history.
Download or read book Reading Roman Women written by Suzanne Dixon and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 2001-06-21 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we retrieve the lives of "real Roman women"? This book presents a range of examples to support the argument that our ideas of what we "know" about women's work, sexuality, commerce and political activity in the Roman world have been shaped by the format, or genre, of each ancient source.
Download or read book Roman Religion and the Cult of Diana at Aricia written by C. M. C. Green and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sanctuary dedicated to Diana at Aricia flourished from the Bronze age to the second century CE. From its archaic beginnings in the wooded crater beside the lake known as the 'mirror of Dianea' it grew into a grand Hellenistic-style complex that attracted crowds of pilgrims and the sick. Diana was also believed to confer power on leaders. This book examines the history of Diana's cult and healing sanctuary, which remained a significant and wealthy religious center for more than a thousand years. It sheds new light on Diana herself, on the use of rational as well as ritual healing in the sanctuary, on the subtle distinctions between Latin religious sensibility and the more austere Roman practice, and on the interpenetration of cult and politics in Latin and Roman history.
Download or read book Reading Roman Friendship written by Craig A. Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of friendship in ancient Rome attentive to gender and social status, language and the commemoration of the dead.
Download or read book Divine Honours for the Caesars written by Bruce W. Winter and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Bruce Winter explores the varied responses of the first Christians to requirements to render divine honors to the Caesars as the conventional public expression of loyalty to Rome and its rulers. How did they cope with the culture of emperor worship when they were required to give their undivided loyalty to Jesus? First examining the significant primary evidence of emperor worship and the enormous societal pressure the first Christians would have faced to participate in it, Winter then looks at specific New Testament evidence in light of his findings. He examines individual cities and provinces and the different ways in which Christians responded to the pressure to fulfill their obligations as citizens and participate in the conventional expressions of loyalty to the Roman Empire.
Download or read book I Suffer Not a Woman written by Richard Clark Kroeger and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 1998-02-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solid scriptural and archaeological evidence refutes the traditional interpretation used to bar women from leadership.
Download or read book Mary Lyon written by James E. Hartley and published by Doorlight Publications. This book was released on 2008-10-08 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1837, by virtue of dogged determination and never removing her sight from her goal, Lyon founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, the world's oldest continuing college for women. This volume draws together the major documents and writings of her remarkable career.
Download or read book Roman Portraits written by Ludwig Goldscheider and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mary written by Jacqueline Orsini and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of Mary as a mother and saint provide an historical and cultural view of how artists have perceived the mother of Jesus and depicted her in wood carvings, mosaics, statues, and murals.
Download or read book Spanish Still Life in the Golden Age 1600 1650 written by William B. Jordan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fathers and Divorce written by Terry Arendell and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1995-02-27 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there has been much research attention paid to mothers and children, fathers have been the unstudied parties in divorce. In this comprehensive ethnographic study, Terry Arendell gives voice to a group of divorced fathers on topics ranging from noncustodial parenting to relationships with their former spouses to fathers' rights. Their "masculinist discourse of divorce" often focuses on their rights as fathers, resistence to injustices perpetrated by the ex-spouse and the legal system, the inherent differences between women and men, and the fractured nature of the postdivorce family. Using a feminist lens, Arendell is able to differentiate the strategies adopted by traditionalist divorced fathers from innovative ones and suggests policy recommendations informed by their masculinist discourse. Complementing her earlier work Mothers and Divorce, this provocative volume offers a balanced and essential view for students and professionals in gender studies, marriage and family, sociology, social work, and communications.
Download or read book Music in Greek and Roman Culture written by Giovanni Comotti and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1991-04-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon the full range of ancient source materials, the author examines such topics as musical form and style, instruments, poet-composers, and the role of music in ancient society.
Download or read book Between Two Deaths written by Ellen Blumenstein and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the continual disappointment of failed political and social utopias--the 60 and the Eastern Bloc come to mind--artists, like everyone else, often find themselves indulging melancholic nostalgia. Between Two Deaths collects work addressing those feelings of uneasiness and loss, critical-artistic reflections on the political, social and cultural trends towards regret and retrospection. The assembled work observes conservative cultural debates, stagnation, regression, fear, insecurity, lethargy and nostalgia, not with censure but with interest--with curiosity about these feelings, and about the cynical pessimism or oft-prescribed optimism that follows. With contributions from Bas Jan Ader, Sebastian Diaz-Morales, Elin Hansdottir, Jutta Koether, Javier Téllez, and Mark Titchner, Harry Dodge, Sue de Beer, Stanya Kahn, Brock Enright and Barnaby Furnass.
Download or read book Women in Medieval Times written by Fiona Macdonald and published by Brighter Child. This book was released on 2000 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the lives and social conditions of women in medieval Europe.
Download or read book Philo and Paul Among the Sophists written by Bruce W. Winter and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1997-08-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Philo and Paul and the first-century sophistic movement.
