Dinah's Daughters : Gender and Judaism from the Hebrew Bible to Late Antiquity.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Setting the Stage -- Words of Warning -- Sex, Status, and Homecoming: A Jewish Penelope? -- Sin, Shame, and Sanctity: The Tale of the Lusty Wife and Rabbi Meir -- Contents -- Part I: Projections of Biblical Spheres of Women -- 1 From Dinah to Cozbi: Rape, Sex, and Foundational Moments -- From Rape to Parental Reticence -- Why Not Marry a Shechemite? -- Dinah and Matriarchal Betrothals -- A Woman of the Wilderness: The Rape of Cozbi -- Foundation Murders and Rapes -- 2 Patriarchy and Patriotism: Integrating Sex into Second Temple Society -- Birth of a Nation: Marriage and Patriotism in Ezra -- Private and Public in Yehud -- Sin, Scripture, and Intermarriage -- The Fate of Foreign Spouses -- The Case of the Defiant Daughter: Jubilees' Dinah -- 3 From Esther to Aseneth: Marriage, Familial Stereotypes, and Domestic Felicity -- Marriage Between Gentiles, Model 1: Ahasuerus and Vashti -- Marriage Between Gentiles, Model 2: Haman and Zeresh -- The Jewish Family -- Intermarriage: Ahasuerus and Esther -- Integrating Brides into the Family: Aseneth and Joseph -- Part II: Visions of Rabbinic Order -- 4 Keeping Adultery at Bay: The Wayward Wife in Late Antiquity -- Theologies and Theories of Sexuality: Roman and Rabbinic Perspectives -- Suspecting Adultery -- Preliminaries: Singling Out Adulteresses -- The Right to Accuse: Constantinian and Rabbinic Innovations -- The "Other": Lovers and Aftermath -- 5 The Harmony of the Home in Late Antiquity: Jewish, Roman, and Christian Perspectives on Intermarriage -- Why Not Marry a Goy? -- Early Christianity and Marital Peripheries -- Banning Jewish-Christian Marriage: Roman Legal Perspectives -- Conclusion: To Die like a Woman? To Live like a Woman? Is There a Jewess in Judaism? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- General Index.

Index of Citations -- Acknowledgments.

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