Table of Contents

Sarah Iles Johnston

Foreword............................................................................................................ V

Table of Contents............................................................................................

List of Abbreviations....................................................................................... XI

Introduction........................................................................................................ 1

Part I: Narrative

Loveday Alexander

The Virgin and the Goddess.

Women and Religion in the Greek Romance.................................................. 11

Patricia D. Ahearne-Kroll

The Portrayal of Aseneth in Joseph and Aseneth.

Women’s Religious Experience in Antiquity and the Limitations

of Ancient Narratives....................................................................................... 39

Mary Rose D’Angelo

Roman Imperial Family Values and the Gospel of Mark.

The Divorce Sayings (Mark 10:2-12).............................................................. 59

James A. Kelhoffer

A Tale of Two Markan Characterizations.

The Exemplary Woman Who Anointed Jesus’ Body

for Burial (14:3-9) and the Silent Trio Who Fled

the Empty Tomb (16:1-8)................................................................................ 85

Turid Karlsen Seim

Motherhood and the Making of Fathers in Antiquity.

Contextualizing Genetics in the Gospel of John............................................. 99

Clare K. Rothschild

Embryology, Plant Biology, and Divine Generation

in the Fourth Gospel....................................................................................... 125

Jan Willem van Henten

Blaming the Women.

Women at Herod’s Court in Josephus’

Jewish Antiquities 15.23-231........................................................................

Robert Doran

To Bear or Not To Bear.

The Argument for Abstinence in the Greek

Gospel of the Egyptians................................................................................. 177

Candida R. Moss

Blood Ties.

Martyrdom, Motherhood, and Family

in the Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas....................................................... 189

Jeremy F. Hultin

A New Web for Arachne and a New Veil for the Temple.

Women and Weaving from Athena to the Virgin Mary................................ 209

Part II: Ritual

Fritz Graf

Victimology.

Or, How to Blame Someone for an Untimely Death..................................... 227

Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

Blaming the Witch.

Some Reflections upon Unexpected Death.................................................... 241

Stephen J. Davis

Forget Me Not.

Memory and the Female Subject in Ancient Binding Spells................... 255

Matt Jackson-McCabe

Women and Eros in Greek Magic and the Acts of Paul and Thecla........ 267

Carin M. C. Green

Holding the Line.

Women, Ritual, and the Protection of Rome................................................. 279

Part III: Logos

Paul A. Holloway

Gender and Grief.

Seneca’s Ad Marciam and Ad Helviam matrem............................................. 299

Christopher N. Mount

Religious Experience, the Religion of Paul,

and Women in Pauline Churches................................................................... 323

Outi Lehtipuu

The Example of Thecla and the Example(s) of Paul.

Disputing Women’s Roles in Early Christianity........................................... 349

Annette Bourland Huizenga

Sophrosyne for Women in Pythagorean Texts............................................. 379

Judith L. Kovacs

Becoming the Perfect Man.

Clement of Alexandria on the Philosophical Life of Women.................. 401

Susan E. Myers

The Spirit as Mother in Early Syriac-Speaking Christianity................... 427

List of Contributors........................................................................................ 463

Index of Ancient Texts.................................................................................. 465

Index of Modern Authors............................................................................... 497

Index of Subjects............................................................................................ 505

List of Abbreviations

All abbreviations follow the abbreviation lists in chapter 8 and the appendices of SBL Handbook of Style (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1999). Any abbrevia­tions not found in this resource are listed in the particular essay where they are used.