Gender and Second-Temple Judaism
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Gender and Second-Temple Judaism

  1. 261 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Gender and Second-Temple Judaism

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction Gender and Second-Temple Judaism
  4. Chapter One “The Brooten Phenomenon”
  5. Chapter Two Women Itinerants, Jesus of Nazareth, and Historical-Critical Approaches
  6. Chapter Three Paul, the Man
  7. Chapter Four From Pain to Redemption
  8. Chapter Five Traversing the Boundaries of Gender
  9. Chapter Six The Reinforcement of Patriarchy and the (De)Construction of Gender Roles in Jubilees’ Reception of the Jacob-Esau-Narrative
  10. Chapter Seven Women and Gender in the Gospel of John
  11. Chapter Eight The Framing of Female Knowledge in the Prologue of the Sibylline Oracles
  12. Chapter Nine Female Authorship in Jewish Antiquity?
  13. Chapter Ten Pheroras’ Wife
  14. Chapter Eleven Cross-dressing Zealots in Josephus’s War Account
  15. Chapter Twelve Female Officiants in Second-Temple Judaism
  16. Index
  17. About the Contributors