Contents

Introduction

• Eileen Schuller and Marie-Theres Wacker

1. EARLY JEWISH WORKS

• Adele Reinhartz LXX Esther: A Hellenistic Jewish Revenge Fantasy
• Barbara Schmitz and Lydia Lange Judith: Beautiful Wisdom Teacher or Pious Woman? Reflections on the Book of Judith
• Marie-Theres Wacker and Sonja Ammann The Holy and the Women: Gender Construction in the Letter of Jeremiah
• Angela Standhartinger Intersections of Gender, Status, Ethnos, and Religion in Joseph and Aseneth

2. INTERPRETATIONS OF BIBLICAL WOMEN

• Magdalena Díaz Araujo The Sins of the First Woman: Eve Traditions in Second Temple Literature with special Regard to the Life of Adam and Eve
• Veronika Bachmann Illicit Male Desire or Illicit Female Seduction? A Comparison of the Ancient Retellings of the Account of the “Sons of God” Mingling with the “Daughters of Men” (Gen 6:1–4)
• Hanna Tervanotko “The Princess Did Provide all Things, as Though I Were Her Own” (Exagoge 37–38): Reading Exodus 2 in the Late Second Temple Era

3. WRITINGS AND THEIR HISTORICAL CONTEXT

• Tal Ilan Flavius Josephus and the Biblical Women
• Maren R. Niehoff Between Social Context and Individual Ideology: Philo’s Changing Views of Women
• Joan E. Taylor Real Women and Literary Airbrushing: The Women “Therapeutae” of Philo’s De Vita contemplativa and the Identity of the Group
• Maxine L. Grossman The World of Qumran and the Sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls in Gendered Perspective

Bibliography

Contributors

Index of Ancient Sources

Early Jewish Writings

• Eds.
  Eileen Schuller
• Marie-Theres Wacker

Year 2017