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Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Bible and women : an encyclopaedia of exegesis and cultural history ; Volume 3.1 | Bible and women ; v. 3.1Publication details: Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature ©2017Description: xv, 299 Pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781628371833
  • 1628371838
  • 9780884142331
  • 0884142337
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BS521.4 .E27 2017
Contents:
LXX Esther : a hellenistic Jewish revenge fantasy / Adele Reinhartz -- Judith : beautiful wisdom teacher or pious woman? reflections on the Book of Judith / Barbara 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 -- The sins of the first woman : Eve traditions in Second Temple literature with special regard to the life of Adam and Eve /
Summary: 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
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At head of title on cover: Apocrypha

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-275) and index

LXX Esther : a hellenistic Jewish revenge fantasy / Adele Reinhartz -- Judith : beautiful wisdom teacher or pious woman? reflections on the Book of Judith / Barbara 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 -- The sins of the first woman : Eve traditions in Second Temple literature with special regard to the life of Adam and Eve /

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

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