Silencing the Queen: The Literary Histories of Shelamzion and Other Jewish Women (Texts & Studies in Ancient Judaism)

"Tal Ilan explores the way historical documents from antiquity are reworked and edited in a long process that ends in silencing the women originally mentioned in them.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 words, denigration of the women and their role or unification of several significant women into one. These methods and others are illuminated in this book, as it uses the example of the Jewish queen Shelamzion Alexandra (76-67 BCE) for its starting point."--BOOK JACKET.Tal Ilan is the author of 'Silencing the Queen: The Literary Histories of Shelamzion and Other Jewish Women (Texts & Studies in Ancient Judaism)', published 2006 under ISBN 9783161488795 and ISBN 3161488792.