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Gender and Second-Temple Judaism

Gender and Second-Temple Judaism

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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781978707863
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 24/09/2020
Width: 15.9 cm
Height: 24.2 cm
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.
Introduction:

Gender and Second Temple Judaism: Challenges and Possibilities

Shayna Sheinfeld



Chapter 1

“The Brooten Phenomenon”: Moving Women from the Margins in Second-Temple and New Testament Scholarship

Sara Parks



Chapter 2

Women Itinerants, Jesus of Nazareth, and Historical-Critical Approaches: Reevaluating the Con-sensus

Amy-Jill Levine



Chapter 3

Paul, the Man: Enigmatic Images

Kathy Ehrensperger



Chapter 4

From Pain to Redemption: 1 Timothy 2:15 in its Jewish Context

Sarah E.G. Fein



Chapter 5

Traversing the Boundaries of Gender: Rebekah’s Usurpation of the Patriarchal Role in the Book of Jubilees

Chontel Syfox



Chapter 6

The Reinforcement of Patriarchy and the (De)Construction of Gender Roles in Jubilees’ Recep-tion of the Jacob-Esau-Narrative

Daniel Vorpahl



Chapter 7

Women and Gender in the Gospel of John

Adele Reinhartz



Chapter 8

The Framing of Female Knowledge in the Prologue of the Sibylline Oracles

Francis Borchardt



Chapter 9

Female Authorship in Jewish Antiquity?

Gerbern Oegema



Chapter 10

Pheroras’ Wife: A Pharisee Woman

Tal Ilan



Chapter 11

Cross-dressing Zealots in Josephus’s War Account

Gabriella Gelardini



Chapter 12

Female Officiants in Second Temple Judaism

Angela Standhartinger

Kathy Ehrensperger, Shayna Sheinfeld, Francis Borchardt

Kathy Ehrensperger is research professor of New Testament in Jewish Perspective at the Abraham Geiger Kolleg, University of Potsdam, Germany.

Shayna Sheinfeld is honorary research scholar at the Sheffield Institute of Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies (SIIBS), University of Sheffield.

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