Constructing Femininity in the Book of Jubilees / Chontel Syfox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Syfox, Chontel, author.

Series:

Biblical Interpretation Series ; 230.

Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2025

Biblical Interpretation Series ; 230

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reformation texts with translation (1350-1650). Biblical studies.

Reformation texts with translation (1350-1650).

Literature and Cultural Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A striking feature of the book of Jubilees is the visibility it gives to women in comparison to Genesis, with the matriarchs especially seeming to play an outsized role in the rewriting. Utilising approaches drawn from the fields of gender and feminist studies, Constructing Femininity in the Book of Jubilees interrogates the motives and priorities that guided the rewriter in his re-presentation of the matriarchs, asking to what extent the treatment of these characters was unique to this text and its author’s attitude towards women or typical of the then literary Zeitgeist .

Contents:

Contents

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction

1 History of Scholarship on Jubilees, Sex, and Gender

2 Methodological Considerations

3 Scope of the Study and Summary of Chapters

Part 1: Jubilees

2 Leah

1 Constructing Hegemonic Masculinities and Idealised Femininities

2 Jacob’s Hegemonic Masculinity

3 Leah’s Idealised Femininity

4 Neutralising Gender Trouble

5 Conclusion

3 Judith, Basemath, and Bedsuel

1 Constructing Pariah Femininities

2 Judith’s and Basemath’s Pariah Femininities

3 Bedsuel’s Pariah Femininity

4 Conclusion

4 Sarah and Rachel

1 Sarah’s Subordinate Femininity

2 Rachel’s Subordinate Femininity

3 Conclusion

5 Rebekah

1 Constructing Complicit Masculinity

2 Neutralising Deception

3 Gender Trouble: Doubling Down

4 Gender Trouble: the Intergenerational Consequences

Part 2: Jewish Novellas and Greek Novel

6 Esther

1 The Traditions

2 Gender Trouble in the Masoretic Text

3 Neutralising Gender Trouble in the Greek Rewriting

7 Judith

1 The Tradition

2 Judith’s Gender Trouble

3 The Complicit Masculinity of the Elders

4 Assyrian Masculinity vs. Judith’s Femininity

5 Neutralising Judith’s Gender Trouble

6 Conclusion

8 Callirhoe

2 Constructing Hegemonic Masculinity

3 Chaereas: from Subordinate to Hegemonic Masculinity

4 Constructing Idealised Femininity

5 Callirhoe: from Virgin to Mother and Wife

6 Pariah Femininities

7 Conclusion

9 Conclusions

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-73483-X

OCLC:

1528601742

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004734838 DOI