Women leaders in the ancient synagogue : : inscriptional evidence and background issues / Bernadette Brooten.

• Superior document: Brown Judaic studies; 36
• VerfasserIn: Brooten, Bernadette J.,
• Place / Publishing House: [Providence, RI] : : Brown Judaic Studies,, 2014; Atlanta : : Scholars Press,, 2020.; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2014; 2020
• Language: English; Hebrew
• Series: Brown Judaic studies ; 36.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 281 p. ); illustrations (greyscale), plates, tables
• Notes: The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. To use this book, or parts of this book, in any way not covered by the license, please contact Brown Judaic Studies, Brown University, Box 1826, Providence, RI 02912.
• Production Credits: Publication of this book is made possible in part by The Max Richter Foundation of Rhode Island.
• ISBN: 9781951498085; 1951498089; 9781951498078; 9780891306702; 0891306706; 9780891305873; 0891305874
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Bernadette Brooten.

This book argues that women served as leaders in a number of synagogues during the Roman and Byzantine periods. The evidence for this consists of nineteen Greek and Latin inscriptions in which women bear the titles "head of the synagogue," "leader," "elder," "mother of the synagogue" and "priestess." These inscriptions range in date from 27 B.C.E. to perhaps the sixth century C.E. and in provenance from Italy to Asia Minor, Egypt and Palestine. While new discoveries make this a growing corpus of material, a number of the inscriptions have been known to scholars for some time. The book contains a new preface by the author.