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Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 Introduction 8 Chapter 1: Between the Holy and the Ordinary: Women’s Lives in Early Christianity 18 The Inviolable Holy 19 Prophecy and the Ascetic Life 24 A Different View 25 Deacons 27 What Does a Title Tell Us? 28 Flavia Vitalia Presbytera Sancta 29 The Cult of Thecla 31 The Lure of Holy Ground and the Part Played by Women 33 A Step Back 35 Notes 37 Bibliography 39 Chapter 2: Transferring and Transforming Religious Identity Abroad: The Personal Adornment of an Egyptian Woman in Canaan 42 Jewelry 45 Cosmetic and Grooming Items 50 Textiles and Attire 56 Conclusions: Transferring and Transforming Identity 58 Notes 59 Bibliography 64 Chapter 3: Besieged Maternity: Reading Textual Cannibalism in the Hebrew Bible through Material Culture 70 Theoretical Framework 72 Child Consumption during Famine in the Bible and the Ancient Near East 73 2 Kings 6:24–31 74 Lamentations 2:20, 4:9–10 75 Material Culture and Maternal Precarity in the Ancient Near-Eastern World 77 Reading 2 Kings 6 and Lamentations 2, 4 with Material Culture 81 Notes 84 Bibliography 85 Chapter 4: Material Expression and Mantic Performance: An Examinat

Author

Mark D. Ellison;

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