Rome 2018 – Papers

Matthew R. Anderson – Response to Sheinfeld’s “Gender and Second-Temple Judaism: Challenges and Possibilities”

Betsy Halpern Amaru – The Empowerment of Women in the Book of Jubilees: Considerations and Reconsiderations

Francis Borchardt – The Framing of Female Knowledge in the Prologue of the Sibylline Oracles

Anna Cwikla – Sight of a Woman: The Rape of Bilhah and Ancient Theories of Sin

Kathy Ehrensperger – Paul, the Man: Enigmatic Images

Sarah E.G. Fein – From Pain to Redemption: 1 Timothy 2:15 in its Jewish Context

R. Gillian Glass – Sense and Sensibility: Aseneth’s Epiphanies

Andrew Higginbotham – Melek v’lo Malcha : A Proposed Herodian Background for Sifre Devarim 157

Tal Ilan – Pheroras’ Wife: A Pharisee Woman

Jessica M. Keady – Masculinities and the Men of the Qumran Communities: Re-Evaluating the Ideals of Purification, Power and Performance in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Amy-Jill Levine – Women Itinerants, Jesus of Nazareth, and Historical-Critical Approaches: Reevaluating the Consensus

Gerbern Oegema – Female Authorship in Jewish Antiquity? 

Gerbern Oegema –  Response to Betsy Halpern Amaru’s “The Empowerment of Women in the book of Jubilees: Considerations and Reconsiderations”

Sara Parks – Nixing the Niche: Moving Women from the Margins in Second Temple Jewish Scholarship

Anders Klostergaard Petersen – Dismantling the Judaism-Hellenism Binary in the Context of Judaic Notions of Gender and Sexuality during Late Second Temple Jewish Religion

Adele Reinhartz – Women and Gender in the Gospel of John

Annette Yoshiko Reed – Gendering Revealed Knowledge? Prophesy, Positionality, and Perspective in Ancient Jewish Apocalyptic and Related Literatures

Joshua Scott – Gender and Paul’s Apocalyptic Communities: Gal 3:28 and 1 Cor 11:10 as Case Studies

Shayna Sheinfeld – Gender and Second Temple Judaism: Challenges & Possibilities

Angela Standhartinger – Female Officiants in Second Temple Judaism

Chontel Syfox – Transcending Gender Limitations: Rebekah’s Usurpation of the Patriarchal Role in the Book of Jubilees

Moshe Taube – Asher’s daughter and Nebuchadnezzar’s wife: two women who significantly affected Jewish History and made their way from Midrashic Literature into Russian Chronicles

Hanna Tervanotko – Women and Divination in the Jewish Texts of the Second Temple Era

Jacqueline Vayntrub – The Three Tamars, the Genesis Apocryphon, and the Recovery of a Botanical Motif

Daniel Vorpahl – The Reinforcement of Patriarchy and the (De)Construction of Gender Roles in Jubilees’ Reception of the Jacob-Esau-Narrative

Meredith Warren – Response to Standhartinger’s, “Female Officiants in Second Temple Judaism”