Paulina Beturia

Veturia Paulla[1] (also given as Beturia Paulla, Beturia Paulina, Paulina Beturia, etc.; known after her conversion as Sara)[2][3] (date unknown, possibly within 200 CE - 600 CE)[4][3] was a Roman convert to Judaism.[5][6] According to a Latin epitaph, found on a fragment of her sarcophagus within the Jewish catacombs of Rome, she was eighty-six years and six months old at the time of her death.[7][2] For the last sixteen years of her life she was a Jew, and was honoured as mother of the synagogues ("mater synagogarum") of the Campesian and Volumnian communities in Rome.[8][4]

References

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  2. ^ a b Williams, Margaret (2007-01-01). "The Use of Alternative Names by Diaspora Jews in Graeco-Roman Antiquity". Journal for the Study of Judaism. 38 (3): 307–327. doi:10.1163/157006307X213500. ISSN 1570-0631.
  3. ^ a b Brooten, Bernadette (2020). Women Leaders in the Ancient Synagogue. Brown Judaic Studies. doi:10.1353/book.76544. ISBN 978-1-951498-07-8.
  4. ^ a b Konikoff, Adia (1990). Sarcophagi from the Jewish Catacombs of Ancient Rome: A Catalogue Raisonné. Franz Steiner Verlag. ISBN 978-3-515-05773-8.
  5. ^ Matthews, Shelly (2001). First Converts: Rich Pagan Women and the Rhetoric of Mission in Early Judaism and Christianity. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-8040-7.
  6. ^ Duncan, Carrie (March 2012). "Inscribing Authority: Female Title Bearers in Jewish Inscriptions". Religions. 3 (1): 37–49. doi:10.3390/rel3010037. ISSN 2077-1444.
  7. ^ Feldman, Louis H. (1996-01-01), "DIASPORA SYNAGOGUES: NEW LIGHT FROM INSCRIPTIONS AND PAPYRI", Studies in Hellenistic Judaism, Brill, pp. 577–602, ISBN 978-90-04-33283-6, retrieved 2024-01-20
  8. ^ Rajak, Tessa (2001-01-01), "INSCRIPTION AND CONTEXT: READING THE JEWISH CATACOMBS OF ROME", The Jewish Dialogue with Greece and Rome, Brill, pp. 431–446, ISBN 978-90-474-0019-6, retrieved 2024-01-20


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