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Series-Subjects Relevant to an Informed Opinion about Christian Women in Ministry

WOMEN IN ANTIQUITY

First created in January, 1996, Revised January 10, 2007
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Carolyn Goodman Plampin
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Master of Teaching, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil, March 20, 1968
Master of Divinity, Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, June 2, 1978
Missionary to Brazil of the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1957-1988
Academic dean (without title) and professor, Instituto Biblico Batista, A.B. Deter and
Seminário Teológico Batista do Paraná, Curitiba, 1959-1979
Academic dean and professor, Seminário de Educacao Crista, Recife, 1980-1986
e-mail: cplampin@ix.netcom.com
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CONTENTS

ARAB

EGYPTIAN

GREEK

JEWISH

ROMAN

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Men are the gatekeepers of what is important to study, so we don't study women. But a study of women of antiquity -- Arab, Egyptian, Greek, Jewish, and Roman -- is essential if we are to understand what the Bible said to women of that time and what it says to women today.

GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

Arthur, Marylin B. "Review Essay: Classics" (theories of matriarchy), SIGNS, Vol. 2, 1976, pp. 382-403.

Pomeroy, Sarah B. "Selected Bibliography on Women in Classical Antiquity, Part I to 1973, and Part II, 1973-1981, and Suggested Undergraduate Syllabus for 'Women in Classical Antiquity'," in Peradotto, John and J. P. Sullivan, eds. WOMEN IN THE ANCIENT WORLD: THE ARETHUSA PAPERS. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1984, pp. 343-377.

Pomeroy, Sarah B. GODDESSES, WHORES, WIVES, AND SLAVES: WOMEN IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY. New York: schocken Books, 1975. The first really scholarly work on the subject of women in classical antiquity.

Rogers, Katherine M. THE TROUBLESOME HELPMATE: A HISTORY OF MISOGYNY IN LITERATURE. (Treats classical writers.) Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1966.

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ARAB

Siebert, Ilse. WOMAN IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST. Leipzig, 1974.

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EGYPTIAN

Pomeroy, Sarah B. WOMAN IN HELLENISTIC EGYPT FROM ALEXANDER TO CLEOPATRA. New York: Schocken Books, 1984.

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GREEK

Lacey, W. K. THE FAMILY IN CLASSICAL GREECE. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1968.
Sealey, Raphael. WOMEN AND LAW IN CLASSICAL GREECE. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.

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JEWISH

Biale, Rachel. WOMEN AND JEWISH LAW, AN EXPLORATION OF WOMEN'S ISSUES IN HALAKHIC SOURCES. New York: Schocken Books, 1984.

Brooten, Bernadette J. WOMEN LEADERS IN THE ANCIENT SYNAGOGUE. Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1982.

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ROMAN

Gardner, Jane F. WOMEN IN ROMAN LAW AND SOCIETY. Bloomington and Indianapolis:Indiana University Press, 1986.
Rawson, Beryl, Editor. THE FAMILY IN ANCIENT ROME, NEW PERSPECTIVES. Ithica, NY: Cornell University P{ress, 1986.

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