About the lecture
Ancient Jewish and Christian sources on women marrying other women fit into a broader range of such sources in the Roman world. Did some women think of their partners as if they were lawful wives? Might some of these persons have had ambiguous genitalia? Could they be the earliest evidence for the social-economic institution of woman-woman marriage that exists today in the Sudan, Kenya, Cameroon, and Nigeria? Or were the male authors of these texts simply conjuring up their worst nightmare or polemicizing? The lecture will help you think through each of these options, so that you can decide.
