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Gender and Second-Temple Judaism

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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.
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
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