Integrating Women into Second Temple History

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Most studies about women, Jewish and otherwise, are usually confined to the domestic sphere: the home, the family, the bed. Yet women were present at all historical events, and it is not only the presence but also their significance for these events which should be recognized. All the sources seem to militate against an approach which assumes the presence of women in public events: When dealing with politics, war and religion, scholars can ignore women, confining themselves instead to the woman's role in the ...
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Overview

Most studies about women, Jewish and otherwise, are usually confined to the domestic sphere: the home, the family, the bed. Yet women were present at all historical events, and it is not only the presence but also their significance for these events which should be recognized. All the sources seem to militate against an approach which assumes the presence of women in public events: When dealing with politics, war and religion, scholars can ignore women, confining themselves instead to the woman's role in the domestic sphere. Tal Ilan here seeks to discover women in the public spaces and main events of Second Temple Judaism. The main principle guiding her is that if by chance women are mentioned in the sources, they should not be treated as a means for explaining the event but rather as an end in themselves. Thus sources showing women as remote or obscure turn out to yield much relevant material. Ilan investigates women's association with the Pharisees and other sects. She analyzes women's roles in the writings of Josephus, Ben Sira, and other important sources. Furthermore she discusses famous women like Beruriah and Berenice. The Dead Sea Scrolls play an important role in her study.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780801046667
  • Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 12/1/2000
  • Pages: 320
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.80 (d)

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Tal Ilan received her PhD from Hebrew University, Jerusalem. She is lecturer at the Rothberg School for Overseas Students at the Hebrew University. She has also served as visiting lecturer at Harvard University and visiting professor at Yale University.
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Table of Contents

Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction 1
Pt. 1 Women and Sects 9
Ch. 1 "Fear not the Pharisees" (bSotah 22b): The Attraction of Aristocratic Women to Pharisaism 11
Ch. 2 "The Daughters of Israel are not Licentious" (mYevamot 13:1): Beit Shammai on the Legal Position of Women 43
Pt. 2 Women and Sources 83
Ch. 3 "Things Unbecoming a Woman" (Ant. 13.431): Josephus and Nicolaus on Women 85
Ch. 4 "And Who Knows Whether You have not Come to Dominion for a Time Like This?" (Esther 4:14): Esther, Judith and Susanna as Propaganda for Shelamzion's Queenship 127
Ch. 5 "Wickedness Comes from Women" (Ben Sira 42:13): Ben Sira's Misogyny and its Reception by the Babylonian Talmud 155
Ch. 6 "Beruriah Has Spoken Well" (tKelim Bava Metzia 1:6): The Historical Beruriah and Her Transformation in the Rabbinic Corpora 175
Ch. 7 "Bone of My Bones" (Genesis 2:23): The Use of Skeletal Remains for the Study of Gender and Social History 195
Pt. 3 Women and the Judaean Desert Papyri 215
Ch. 8 Julia Crispina: A Herodian Princess in the Babatha Archive 217
Ch. 9 "He Who Eats at his Father-in-Law's in Judaea ... Cannot Bring a Virginity Suit" (mKetubbot 1:5): Premarital Cohabitation in the Judaean Desert Papyri and the Mishnah 235
Ch. 10 A Divorce Bill? Notes on Papyrus XHev/Se 13 253
Bibliography 263
Indices 279
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