In a wide historical framework, the present volume discusses the legal and social roles and positions of women in ancient Judaism, early Christianity, and the surrounding Greco-Roman world. Sources investigated are documentary texts from Egypt and the Judaean desert, selected writings from the Dead Sea and texts from the Hellenistic-Jewish, early Christian, and Rabbinic traditions. The essays discuss issues of the liturgical function of women, their legal position with regard to marriage and property, piety and purity issues as well as the problems of daily life, but also narrative images, role models and clichés. The combination of historical source analysis and the approaches of gender studies leads to a more precise perception of the construction of those images and patterns and their effects in the various ancient cultures.
In a wide historical framework, the present volume discusses the legal and social roles and positions of women in ancient Judaism, early Christianity, and the surrounding Greco-Roman world. Sources investigated are documentary texts from Egypt and the Judaean desert, selected writings from the Dead Sea and texts from the Hellenistic-Jewish, early Christian, and Rabbinic traditions. The essays discuss issues of the liturgical function of women, their legal position with regard to marriage and property, piety and purity issues as well as the problems of daily life, but also narrative images, role models and clichés. The combination of historical source analysis and the approaches of gender studies leads to a more precise perception of the construction of those images and patterns and their effects in the various ancient cultures.
Table of contents:
Beate Ego: Frauengestalten und ihre Religion im Wandel. Von den Überlieferungen in der Hebräischen Bibel zu den Apokryphen -
Angela Standhartinger: Jüdische Liturginnen zur Zeit des zweiten Tempels -
Cecilia Wassen: Purity Laws for Men and Women in the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Comparison of Ideals and Praxis -
Nicole Rupschus: Frauen im liturgischen und weisheitlichen Kontext in 4Q502 und 4Q184. Ihr Aussagegehalt über die Gemeinschaft von Qumran und ihr Verhältnis zu den gruppenspezifischen Texten -
Kimberley Czajkowski: Law in the Babatha and Salome Komaise Archives: A New Approach -
Tal Ilan: Die Frauenarchive aus Elephantine und der Judäischen Wüste. Gesetzestexte und archäologische Funde -
Christina Kreinecker: Zum Alltagsleben von Frauen in neutestamentlicher Zeit anhand dokumentarischer Papyri -
Michael Sommer: Schriftkundige und Weltenbummler? Witwen, Schrifthermeneutik und die »Alltagswelt« der dokumentarischen Papyri -
Christfried Böttrich: Zwischen Sensibilität und Konvention. Rollenbilder von Frauen im lukanischen Doppelwerk -
Stephanie Janz: Characterisation in the Gospel of Mary -
Annette Merz: »New« Woman? Bruce W. Winters These und ihre Rezeption in der exegetischen Diskussion kritisch beleuchtet -
Michael Becker: »… denn sie war an Wunder gewöhnt« (bTaan 25a). Die Frau des Charismatikers in der rabbinischen Literatur
