TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schuller,Eileen M.
AU  - Wacker,Marie-Theres
TI  - Early Jewish writings
SN  - 9781628371833
AV  - BS521.4 .E27 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Atlanta
PB  - Society of Biblical Literature
KW  - Bible
KW  - Old Testament
KW  - Feminist criticism
KW  - Women in the Bible
KW  - Women in rabbinical literature
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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