"Girls Trained in Beautiful Writing": Female Scribes in Roman Antiquity and Early Christianity
Embedded within Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History is a rather curious reference to Origen's female calligraphers (HE 6.23). This article seeks first to contextualize Eusebius' remarks by surveying the evidence—both literary and epigraphic—for female scribes in Greco-Roman antiquity and...
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Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
1998
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Journal of early Christian studies
Year: 1998, Volume: 6, Issue: 4, Pages: 629-646 |
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