Dinah's Daughters

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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 PART 1: 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 2: 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 Indexes Acknowledgments

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