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Authors: Helena Zlotnick
ISBN-13: 9780812217971, ISBN-10: 0812217977
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Date Published: April 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Helena Zlotnick

Helena Zlotnick (in reality Hagith Sivan) teaches at the University of Kansas.

Book Synopsis

"This is an important title. . . . It will be valuable in graduate-level study of Western and Middle Eastern antiquity."—Choice

	List of Abbreviations
	Introduction: Setting the Stage	1
Pt. I	Projections of Biblical Spheres of Women
1	From Dinah of Cozbi: Rape, Sex, and Foundational Moments	33
	From Rape to Parental Reticence	35
	Why Not Marry a Shechemite?	42
	Dinah and Matriarchal Betrothals	45
	A Woman of the Wilderness: The Rape of Cozbi	49
	Foundation Murders and Rapes	52
2	Patriarchy and Patriotism: Integrating Sex into Second Temple Society	57
	Birth of a Nation: Marriage and Patriotism in Ezra	58
	Private and Public in Yehud	61
	Sin, Scripture, and Intermarriage	63
	The Fate of Foreign Spouses	66
	The Case of the Defiant Daughter: Jubilees' Dinah	69
3	From Esther to Aseneth: Marriage, Familial Stereotypes, and Domestic Felicity	76
	Marriage Between Gentiles, Model 1: Ahasuerus and Vashti	77
	Marriage Between Gentiles, Model 2: Haman and Zeresh	82
	The Jewish Family	84
	Intermarriage: Ahasuerus and Esther	89
	Integrating Brides into the Family: Aseneth and Joseph	92
Pt. II	Visions of Rabbinic Order
4	Keeping Adultery at Bay: The Wayward Wife in Late Antiquity	105
	Theologies and Theories of Sexuality: Roman and Rabbinic Perspectives	105
	Suspecting Adultery	110
	Preliminaries: Singling Out Adulteresses	113
	The Right to Accuse: Constantinian and Rabbinic Innovations	118
	The "Other": Lovers and Aftermath	125
5	The Harmony of the Home in Late Antiquity: Jewish, Roman, and Christian Perspectives on Intermarriage	132
	Why Not Marry a Goy?	137
	Early Christianity and Marital Peripheries	151
	Banning Jewish-Christian Marriage: Roman Legal Perspectives	155
	Conclusion: To Die like a Woman? To Live like a Woman? Is There a Jewess in Judaism?	161
	Notes	173
	Bibliography	215
	General Index	235
	Index of Citations	241
	Acknowledgments	247

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