The Empowerment of Women in the Book of Jubilees »

Betsy Halpern-Amaru, Professor of Religion at Vassar College, has published extensively on the characterizations of women and on Land theology in Second Temple Jewish literature including Rewriting the Bible: Land and Covenant in Post-Biblical Jewish Literature (Trinity International, 1994).

An examination of biblical interpretation, this work explores the unusual interest in the characterizations of women in the Book of Jubilees, written in the second century BCE.