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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.
|CONTENTS
|Introduction
|Eileen Schuller and Marie-Theres Wacker
|1. EARLY JEWISH WORKS
|Adele Reinhartz
|lXX Esther: A Hellenistic Jewish Revenge Fantasy
|Barbara Schmitz and Lydia Lange
|Judith: Beautiful Wisdom Teacher or Pious Woman? Reflections on the Book of Judith
|Marie-Theres Wacker and Sonja Ammann
|The Holy and the Women: Gender Construction in the Letter of Jeremiah
|Angela Standhartinger
|Intersections of Gender, Status, Ethnos, and Religion in Joseph and Aseneth
|2. INTERPRETATIONS OF BIBLICAL WOMEN
|Magdalena Díaz Araujo
|The Sins of the First Woman: Eve Traditions in Second Temple Literature with special Regard to the Life of Adam and Eve
|Veronika Bachmann
|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)
|Hanna Tervanotko
|“The Princess Did Provide all Things, as Though I Were Her Own” (Exagoge 37–38): Reading Exodus 2 in the Late Second Temple Era
|3. WRITINGS AND THEIR HISTORICAL CONTEXT
|Tal Ilan
|Flavius Josephus and the Biblical Women
|Maren R. Niehoff
|Between Social Context and Individual Ideology: Philo’s Changing Views of Women
|Joan E. Taylor
|Real Women and Literary Airbrushing: The Women “Therapeutae” of Philo’s and the Identity of the Group
|Maxine L. Grossman
|The World of Qumran and the Sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls in Gendered Perspective
|Bibliography
|Contributors
|Index of Ancient Sources