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Kathy Ehrensperger - Shayna Sheinfeld (eds.), Gender and Second-Temple Judaism (Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2020).

Abstract

Proceeding of the 2018 Nangeroni Meeting in Rome, Italy.

"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 description.

Contents

Introduction. Gender and Second-Temple Judaism : challenges and possibilities / Shayna Sheinfeld -- "The Brooten phenomenon" : moving women from the margins in Second-Temple and New Testament scholarship / Sara Parks -- Women itinerants, Jesus of Nazareth, and historical-critical approaches : reevaluating the consensus / Amy-Jill Levine -- Paul, the man : enigmatic images / Kathy Ehrensperger -- From pain to redemption : 1 Timothy 2:15 in its Jewish context / Sarah E.G. Fein -- Traversing the boundaries of gender : Rebekah's usurpation of the patriarchal role in the book of Jubilees / Chontel Syfox -- The reinforcement of patriarchy and the (de)construction of gender roles in Jubilees' reception of the Jacob-Esau-narrative / Daniel Vorpahl -- Women and gender in the gospel of John / Adele Reinhartz -- The framing of female knowledge in the prologue of the Sibylline oracles / Francis Borchardt -- Female authorship in Jewish antiquity? / Gerbern S. Oegema -- Pheroras' wife : a Pharisee woman / Tal Ilan -- Cross-dressing zealots in Josephus's war account / Gabriella Gelardini -- Female officiants in Second-Temple Judaism / Angela Standhartinger.

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