Foreign women - women in foreign lands : studies on foreignness and gender in the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East in the first millennium BCE / edited by Angelika Berlejung and Marianne Grohmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berlejung, Angelika, 1961- editor, writer of preface.

Grohmann, Marianne, 1969- editor, writer of preface.

Series:

Orientalische Religionen in der Antike ; 35.

Orientalische Religionen in der Antike ; 35

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in the Bible.

Noncitizens--Biblical teaching.

Noncitizens.

Noncitizens--Biblical teaching.

Biblical teaching.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

ix, 289 pages ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Foreignness and gender in the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East in the first millennium BCE

Place of Publication:

Tübingen, Germany : Mohr Siebeck, [2019]

Summary:

The volume presents a collection of papers read during three workshops held in Leipzig (2016), Jerusalem (2017), and Vienna (2018). International scholars from different disciplines and methodological approaches explored gender-specific constructions of foreignness/strangeness in the Old Testament, Egypt, and Mesopotamia from their particular perspectives. They showed that when combined, strangeness/foreignness and gender can take on very different forms. Various processes of the "othering" of women are of importance, which differ from the "othering" of men. The contributions investigate specific questions, individual female figures and individual phenomena as model cases. The basic question was when, where, how and for what purpose the categories of foreignness and gender were connected and activated in literary tradition. The collection is a preliminary and basic work for further study of gender-specific concepts of foreignness/strangeness in the ancient Mediterranean cultures of the first millennium BCE. -- Provided by publisher, page 2 of bookjacket.

The volume presents a collection of papers read during three workshops held in Leipzig (2016), Jerusalem (2017), and Vienna (2018). International scholars from different disciplines and methodological approaches explored gender-specific constructions of foreignness/strangeness in the Old Testament, Egypt, and Mesopotamia from their particular perspectives. They showed that when combined, strangeness/foreignness and gender can take on very different forms. Various processes of the "othering" of women are of importance, which differ from the "othering" of men. The contributions investigate specific questions, individual female figures and individual phenomena as model cases. The basic question was when, where, how and for what purpose the categories of foreignness and gender were connected and activated in literary tradition. The collection is a preliminary and basic work for further study of gender-specific concepts of foreignness/strangeness in the ancient Mediterranean cultures of the first millennium BCE.

Contents:

How to become an alien (woman)? / Lars Allolio-Näcke

Marriage with foreign women : yes or no? / Sara Japhet

Solomon's soulmate : the Queen of Sheba as a foreign woman / Angelika Berlejung

Rahab, the unlikely foreign woman of Jericho (Joshua 2) / Nili Wazana

The Philistine woman from Timnah in Judges 14:1-15:8 / Marianne Grohmann

When YHWH's wife, Jerusalem, became a strange woman / Daniel Bodi

Foreign women in the Book of Proverbs / Stefan Fischer

The image of the foreign woman in Prov 1-9 / Jan Dietrich

Phoenicians and money bags : observations on Prov 7 / Hans-Peter Mathys

The valiant housewife of Prov 31:10-31: a Phoenician businesswoman / Hans-Peter Mathys

Pharaoh's daughter and Ruth : cornerstones in the history of Israel / Jutta Hausmann

A Moabite woman as the 'right son' : Ruth as Naomi's and Boaz's daughter / Agnethe Siquans

Esther in Shushan / Kristin Joachimsen

Ancient expats?: wise women and witches in Egyptian literary sources / Franziska Naether

Forever foreign?: marriage rules in urban Babylonia and their impact on the exiles and returnees / Angelika Berlejung.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

e-book version

ISBN:

9783161575907

3161575903

OCLC:

1127980500

Publisher Number:

9783161575907

99984148559