Silencing the Queen: The Literary Histories of Shelamzion and Other Jewish Women by Tal Ilan

Silencing the Queen: The Literary Histories of Shelamzion and Other Jewish Women

Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism

Tal Ilan

315 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history medium-paced

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Tal Ilan explores the way historical documents from antiquity are reworked and edited in a long process that ends in silencing the women originally mentioned in them. Many methods are used to produce this end result: elimination of women or their ...

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