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Early Jewish writings / edited by Eileen Schuller and Marie-Theres Wacker.

Contributor(s): Schuller, Eileen M, 1946- [editor.] | Wacker, Marie-Theres [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Bible and women: v. 3.1.Publisher: Atlanta : SBL Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: xv, 299 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781628371833 (pbk. : alk. paper); 1628371838 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Bible. Old Testament -- Feminist criticism | Women in the Bible | Women in rabbinical literatureDDC classification: 296.1082 LOC classification: BS521.4 | .E27 2017Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-275) and index.
Contents:
Early Jewish works -- LXX Esther: a Hellenistic Jewish revenge fantasy / Adele Reinhartz -- Judith: beautiful wisdom teacher or pious woman? Reflections on the book of Judith / Barabar 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 -- Interpretations of biblical women -- The sins of the first woman: Eve traditions in Second Temple literature with special regard to the life of Adam and Eve / Magdalena Días 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 -- Writings and their historical context -- 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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-275) and index.

Part 1: Early Jewish works -- LXX Esther: a Hellenistic Jewish revenge fantasy / Adele Reinhartz -- Judith: beautiful wisdom teacher or pious woman? Reflections on the book of Judith / Barabar 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 -- Part 2: Interpretations of biblical women -- The sins of the first woman: Eve traditions in Second Temple literature with special regard to the life of Adam and Eve / Magdalena Días 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 -- Part 3: Writings and their historical context -- 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.

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