Gender and Second-Temple Judaism. 9781978707863. Innbundet - 2020

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.

Gender and Second-Temple Judaism

Ehrensperger Kathy Sheinfeld, Shayna

Innbundet / 2020 / Engelsk

Ehrensperger Kathy Sheinfeld, Shayna

Innbundet / 2020 / Engelsk

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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.

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Gender and Second Temple Judaism examines the myriad constructions of gender in Second Temple Judaism including early Christianity. The chapters examine the state of the field and methodology and hone in on specific texts.

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Introduction: Gender and Second Temple Judaism: Challenges and PossibilitiesShayna Sheinfeld Chapter 1“The Brooten Phenomenon”: Moving Women from the Margins in Second-Temple and New Testament ScholarshipSara Parks Chapter 2Women Itinerants, Jesus of Nazareth, and Historical-Critical Approaches: Reevaluating the Con-sensusAmy-Jill Levine Chapter 3Paul, the Man: Enigmatic ImagesKathy Ehrensperger Chapter 4From Pain to Redemption: 1 Timothy 2:15 in its Jewish ContextSarah E.G. Fein Chapter 5Traversing the Boundaries of Gender: Rebekah’s Usurpation of the Patriarchal Role in the Book of JubileesChontel Syfox Chapter 6The Reinforcement of Patriarchy and the (De)Construction of Gender Roles in Jubilees’ Recep-tion of the Jacob-Esau-NarrativeDaniel Vorpahl Chapter 7Women and Gender in the Gospel of JohnAdele Reinhartz Chapter 8The Framing of Female Knowledge in the Prologue of the Sibylline OraclesFrancis Borchardt Chapter 9Female Authorship in Jewish Antiquity?Gerbern Oegema Chapter 10Pheroras’ Wife: A Pharisee WomanTal Ilan Chapter 11Cross-dressing Zealots in Josephus’s War AccountGabriella Gelardini Chapter 12Female Officiants in Second Temple Judaism Angela Standhartinger

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