Unreliable Witnesses - Kraemer, Ross Shepard (Professor of Religious Studies and Judaic Studies, Professor of Religious Studies and Judaic Studies, Brown University)

Through case studies, Ross Shepard Kraemer explores how rhetorical uses of gender obscure our vision of women's practice of religion in antiquity and shows how religious practices in the ancient Mediterranean, whether gender-specific or not, routinely encoded and affirmed ideas about gender.