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[edit]

^ Huskinson, Janet (2013-10-28). Experiencing Rome: Culture, Identity and Power in the Roman Empire. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-69314-6.
^ ^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.
^ ^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.
^ ^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.
^ 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.
^ Duncan, Carrie (March 2012). "Inscribing Authority: Female Title Bearers in Jewish Inscriptions". Religions. 3 (1): 37–49. doi:10.3390/rel3010037. ISSN 2077-1444.
^ 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
^ 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

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Beturia, Paulina". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.

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[1] Huskinson, Janet (2013-10-28). Experiencing Rome: Culture, Identity and Power in the Roman Empire. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-69314-6.

[:0-2] 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.

[:1-3] Brooten, Bernadette (2020). Women Leaders in the Ancient Synagogue. Brown Judaic Studies. doi:10.1353/book.76544. ISBN 978-1-951498-07-8.

[:2-4] 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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