Author: Matthews, Shelly
Title: First Converts: Rich Pagan Women and the Rhetoric of Mission in Early Judaism and Christianity
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, (2001). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xiv, 164 pp, A slight smudge to front flyleaf.. Minor rubbing. Some light page-edge soil. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Crimes of Passion: Religion, Sex, & State Subversion in ' Antiquities' 18.65-84; Ladies' Aid: Gentile Noblewomen as Saviors & Benefactors in the 'Antiquities'; "More Than a Few Greek Women of High Standing": "God-Fearing" Noblewomen in Acts; First Converts: Acts 16 & the Legitimating Function of High-Standing Women in Missionary Propaganda; Conclusion.

Keywords: History of Religion, Early Christianity, Biblical Exegesis, Proselytizing Women, Conversion Judaism, Judaism Pagan, Noblewomen Nobility, Flavius Josephus, New Testament