Early Jewish Writings

by Eileen Schuller (Editor), Marie-Theres Wacker (Editor)

Overview

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 Gen 6:1–4; the Egyptian princess at the birth of Moses; 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, the Therapeutae, in Egyptian Alexandria.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780884142331
Publisher:	SBL Press
Publication date:	06/16/2017
Series:	The Bible and Women
Pages:	316
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

Eileen Schuller is Professor (emerita) in the Dept. of Religious Studies at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, where she has held the Senator William McMaster Chair in the Study of Religion. She has edited various prayer and psalm manuscripts from the Dead Sea Scrolls for the official publication, Discoveries in the Judaean Desert, including The Non-Canonical Psalms, 4QHodayot, and a re-edition (with Hartmut Stegeman) of 1QHodayot. She has written on women in the Dead Scrolls and in Early Judaism, and a more popular book The Dead Sea Scrolls: What Have We Learned (Westminster/John Knox; SCM, 2006).