Constructing Femininity in the Book of Jubilees
Series: Biblical Interpretation Series; 230;
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Product details:
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 31 July 2025
- ISBN 9789004734821
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages196 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 472 g
- Language English 683
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Short description:
Utilising approaches from gender and feminist studies, Constructing Femininity in the Book of Jubilees examines the rewritten depictions of the matriarchs, interrogating the motives and priorities that informed the rewriting of these characters.
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A striking feature of the book of Jubilees is the visibility it gives to women in comparison to Genesis, with the matriarchs especially seeming to play an outsized role in the rewriting. Utilising approaches drawn from the fields of gender and feminist studies, Constructing Femininity in the Book of Jubilees interrogates the motives and priorities that guided the rewriter in his re-presentation of the matriarchs, asking to what extent the treatment of these characters was unique to this text and its author’s attitude towards women or typical of the then literary Zeitgeist.
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Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
1 History of Scholarship on Jubilees, Sex, and Gender
2 Methodological Considerations
3 Scope of the Study and Summary of Chapters
Part 1: Jubilees
2 Leah
1 Constructing Hegemonic Masculinities and Idealised Femininities
2 Jacob’s Hegemonic Masculinity
3 Leah’s Idealised Femininity
4 Neutralising Gender Trouble
5 Conclusion
3 Judith, Basemath, and Bedsuel
1 Constructing Pariah Femininities
2 Judith’s and Basemath’s Pariah Femininities
3 Bedsuel’s Pariah Femininity
4 Conclusion
4 Sarah and Rachel
1 Sarah’s Subordinate Femininity
2 Rachel’s Subordinate Femininity
3 Conclusion
5 Rebekah
1 Constructing Complicit Masculinity
2 Neutralising Deception
3 Gender Trouble: Doubling Down
4 Gender Trouble: the Intergenerational Consequences
5 Conclusion
Part 2: Jewish Novellas and Greek Novel
6 Esther
1 The Traditions
2 Gender Trouble in the Masoretic Text
3 Neutralising Gender Trouble in the Greek Rewriting
4 Conclusion
7 Judith
1 The Tradition
2 Judith’s Gender Trouble
3 The Complicit Masculinity of the Elders
4 Assyrian Masculinity vs. Judith’s Femininity
5 Neutralising Judith’s Gender Trouble
6 Conclusion
8 Callirhoe
1 The Tradition
2 Constructing Hegemonic Masculinity
3 Chaereas: from Subordinate to Hegemonic Masculinity
4 Constructing Idealised Femininity
5 Callirhoe: from Virgin to Mother and Wife
6 Pariah Femininities
7 Conclusion
9 Conclusions
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