Gender and second-temple Judaism / edited by Kathy Ehrensperger and Shayna Sheinfeld.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ehrensperger, Kathy, 1956- editor.

Sheinfeld, Shayna, editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.

Judaism.

Sex role--Religious aspects--Judaism--History.

Sex role.

Judaism--Post-exilic period (Judaism).

Sex role--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 pages)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, [2020]

Summary:

"Ancient literature was generally written by and produced for elite men. That fact creates specific challenges to modern interpreters of gender roles in the ancient world, especially once contemporary understandings of gender as construction and performance are embraced. In Gender and Second-Temple Judaism, world-renowned scholars take on these challenges with regard to ancient Judaism (here including early Christianity and early rabbinic Judaism as well), at once examining the ancient evidence and quite consciously addressing difficult methodological questions regarding gender. Taken together, these chapters further complicate discussions of the construction of identity (e.g., "who is a Jew?") by inflecting them with questions of gender construction as well. Scholars of ancient Judaism and of gender alike will find much to grapple with in these pages."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Chapter One “The Brooten Phenomenon”

Chapter Two Women Itinerants, Jesus of Nazareth, and Historical-Critical Approaches

Chapter Three Paul, the Man

Chapter Four From Pain to Redemption

Chapter Five Traversing the Boundaries of Gender

Chapter Six The Reinforcement of Patriarchy and the (De)Construction of Gender Roles in Jubilees’ Reception of the Jacob-Esau-Narrative

Chapter Seven Women and Gender in the Gospel of John

Chapter Eight The Framing of Female Knowledge in the Prologue of the Sibylline Oracles

Chapter Nine Female Authorship in Jewish Antiquity?

Chapter Ten Pheroras’ Wife

Chapter Eleven Cross-dressing Zealots in Josephus’s War Account

Chapter Twelve Female Officiants in Second-Temple Judaism

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-9787-1956-6

1-9787-0787-8

OCLC:

1197765128