Early Jewish Writings (2017 Schuller, Wacker), edited volume

Early Jewish Writings (2017) is a volume edited by Eileen M. Schuller and Marie-Theres Wacker.

Abstract

"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."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2017 (The Bible and Women, 3).

Contents

LXX Esther : a hellenistic Jewish revenge fantasy / Adele Reinhartz -- Judith : beautiful wisdom teacher or pious woman? reflections on the Book of Judith / Barbara Schmitz and Lydia Lange -- The holy and the women : gender constructions in the Letter of Jeremiah / Marie-Theres Wacker and Sonja Ammann -- Intersections of gender, status, ethnos, and religion in Joseph and Aseneth / Angela Standhartinger -- The sins of the first woman : Eve traditions in Second Temple literature with special regard to the life of Adam and Eve / Magdalena Díaz Araujo -- Illicit male desire or illicit female seduction? a comparison of the ancient retellings of the account of the "sons of God" mingling with the "daughters of men" (Gen 6 : 1-4) / Veronika Bachmann -- "The princess did provide all things, as though I were her own" (Exagoge 37-38) : reading Exodus 2 in the late Second Temple Era / Hanna Tervanotko -- Flavius Josephus and the biblical women / Tal Ilan -- Between social context and individual ideology : Philo's changing views of women / Maren R. Niehoff -- Real women and literary airbrushing : the women "therapeutae" of Philo's De vita contemplativa and the Identity of the Group / Joan E. Taylor -- The world of Qumran and the sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls in gendered perspective / Maxine L. Grossman.