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Coming of age in medieval Egypt : female adolescence, Jewish law, and ordinary culture /

: xvi, 350 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9780691174983

Published 2014
Hedwig Fechheimer und die ägyptische Kunst : Leben und Werk einer jüdischen Kunstwissenschaftlerin in Deutschland /

: 323 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-318) and index. : 9783050059792 : 2198-5790 ;

Published 2020
Language, gender and law in the Judaeo-Islamic milieu.

: "The articles in this volume focus on the legal, linguistic, historical and literary roles of Jewish women in the Islamic world of the Middle Ages. Drawing heavily on manuscript evidence from the Cairo Genizah, the authors examine the challenges involved in the identification and interpretation of women's letters from medieval Egypt, the registers of women's written language, the relations between Jewish women and the Muslim legal system, the conversion of women, visions of women in Hell and gendered readings in the aggadic tradition of Judaism".
: 1 online resource. : 9789004422179

Published 2022
Queen Berenice : A Jewish Female Icon of the First Century CE /

: This is a biography of Queen Berenice, the daughter of King Agrippa I, sister of King Agrippa II, wife of two kings and lover of the emperor designate Flavius Titus. A Jew of the 1st century, she witnessed some of the foundational events of her time like the emergence of Christianity and the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, is. She met and socialized with the most important people of her day - Philo the Philosopher (who was at one time her brother-in-law), Paul the Apostle (whose trial she witnessed) and Josephus the Historian who told part of her story.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004511033
9789004510906

Published 2015
Destins de femmes a Elephantine au Ve siecle avant notre ere /

: 414 pages ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-383) and index. : 9782343049137
2343049130