Silencing the Queen (2006 Ilan), book

Silencing the Queen: The Literary Histories of Shelamzion and Other Jewish Women (2006) is a book by Tal Ilan.

Abstract

"Tal Ilan explores the way historical documents from antiquity are reworked and edited in a long process that ends in silencing the women originally mentioned in them. Many methods are used to produce this end result: elimination of women or their words, denigration of the women and their role or unification of several significant women into one. These methods and others are illuminated in this book, as it uses the example of the Jewish queen Shelamzion Alexandra (76-67 BCE) for its starting point. Queen Shelamzion was the only legitimate Jewish queen in history. Yet all the documents in which she is mentioned (Josephus, Qumran scrolls, rabbinic literature etc.) have been reworked so as to minimize her significance and distort the picture we may receive of her. Tal Ilan follows the ways this was done and in doing so she encounters similar patterns in which other Jewish women in antiquity were silenced, censored and edited out."--Publisher description.

"Tal Ilan untersucht, wie historische Dokumente aus der Antike überarbeitet wurden, um die Frauen, von denen sie ursprünglich handelten, zum Schweigen zu bringen. Dies geschah auf vielerlei Arten: die Frauen und ihre überlieferten Aussagen wurden einfach gestrichen, ihre Bedeutung wurde heruntergespielt oder zahlreiche Frauenfiguren wurden als eine einzige überliefert. Ausgehend von einer Analyse der Texte, in denen die jüdische Königin Shelamzion Alexandra (76-67 AD) erwähnt wird, untersucht Tal Ilan solche Strategien des Verschweigens und Zensierens von Frauen in der antiken jüdischen Literatur."--Publisher description (German).

Editions

Published in Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2006 (Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum, 115).

External links

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