Paulina Beturia Explained

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) was a Roman convert to Judaism.^{[4] [5]} 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. 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.^[6]

Notes and References

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3. Book: Brooten, Bernadette . Women Leaders in the Ancient Synagogue . 2020 . Brown Judaic Studies . 978-1-951498-07-8 . 10.1353/book.76544.
4. Book: Matthews, Shelly . First Converts: Rich Pagan Women and the Rhetoric of Mission in Early Judaism and Christianity . 2001 . Stanford University Press . 978-0-8047-8040-7 . en.
5. Duncan . Carrie . March 2012 . Inscribing Authority: Female Title Bearers in Jewish Inscriptions . Religions . en . 3 . 1 . 37–49 . 10.3390/rel3010037 . free . 2077-1444.
6. Book: Konikoff, Adia . Sarcophagi from the Jewish Catacombs of Ancient Rome: A Catalogue Raisonné . 1990 . Franz Steiner Verlag . 978-3-515-05773-8 . en.