Early Jewish writings / edited by Eileen Schuller and Marie-Theres Wacker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schuller, Eileen M., 1946- editor.

Wacker, Marie-Theres, editor.

Series:

The Bible and women ; Number 3.1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament--Feminist criticism.

Bible.

Women in the Bible.

Women in rabbinical literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Atlanta : SBL Press, [2017]

Summary:

This collection of essays deals with aspects of women and gender relations in early Judaism (during the Persian, Greek, and Roman empires). Some essays focus on specific writings: the Greek (Septuagint) version of Esther, Judith, Joseph and Aseneth, and the Letter of Jeremiah. Others explore how certain biblical texts are reinterpreted: Eve in the Life of Adam and Eve, the mixing of the sons of God with the daughters of men from Genesis 6:1-4, the Egyptian princess at the birth of Moses, and how Josephus retells biblical stories. The third group of essays explore specific social contexts: Philo's views of women in the Roman empire, the Sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls, and women philosophers of the Therapeutae in Egyptian Alexandria.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part 1: Early Jewish Works; LXX Esther; Judith; The Holy and the Women; Intersections of Gender, Status, Ethnos, and Religion; Part 2: Interpretations of Biblical Women; The Sins of the First Woman; Illicit Male Desire or Illicit Female Seduction?; "The Princess Did Provide All Things, as Though I Were Her Own"; Part 3: Writings and Their Historical Context; Flavius Josephus and Biblical Women; Between Social Context and Individual Ideology; Real Women and Literary Airbrushing; The World of Qumran; Bibliography; Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.