The aim of the present conference volume is to study the interrelationship of literary and material approaches to historical investigation of gender. Paradigmatically the significance and meaning of gender and sexuality is explored in the context of private and public, religious and secular spaces. Historical, cultural, and social norms (and deviations) of daily life are examined through the lens of textual, archaeological, and art historical investigations to interpret relics of ancient Israelite, Jewish, and Christian communities from the Iron Age through Late Antiquity. Scholars from varied disciplines such as biblical and classical archaeology, epigraphy, Old and New Testament exegesis and religious studies assembled to engage in a dialogue involving both texts and material culture.
Light Against Darkness : Dualism in Ancient Mediterranean Religion and the Contemporary World
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Between Text and Text : The Hermeneutics of Intertextuality in Ancient Cultures and Their Afterlife in Medieval and Modern Times
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Between Symbolism and Realism : The Use of Symbolic and Non-Symbolic Language in Ancient Jewish Apocalypses 333-63 B.C.E
Bennie H. Reynolds Reynolds
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Religious Competition in the Third Century CE: Jews, Christians, and the Greco-Roman World
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Exploring the Dead Sea Scrolls : Archaeology and Literature of the Qumran Caves
Hanan Eshel
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Institutionalized Routine Prayers at Qumran: Fact or Assumption?
Paul Heger
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"See, I will bring a scroll recounting what befell me" (Ps 40:8) : Epigraphy and Daily Life from the Bible to the Talmud
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Commentary and Authority in Mesopotamia and Qumran
Bronson Brown-deVost
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The Courtier and the Governor : Transformations of Genre in the Nehemiah Memoir
Sean Burt
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Performances of Ancient Jewish Letters : From Elephantine to MMT
Marvin Lloyd Miller
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Gender and Social Norms in Ancient Israel, Early Judaism and Early Christianity: Texts and Material Culture
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Prophecy and Its Cultic Dimensions
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