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Silencing the Queen: The Literary Histories of Shelamzion and Other Jewish Women (Texts & Studies in Ancient Judaism, 115) by Tal Ilan, Ṭal Ilan is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Tal Ilan explores the way historical documents from antiquity are reworked and edited in a long process that ends in silencing the women originally mentioned in them.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 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. Queen Shelamzion was the only legitimate Jewish queen in history. Yet all the documents in which she is mentioned (Josephus, Qumran scrolls, rabbinic literature, etc.) have been reworked so as to minimize her significance and distort the picture we may receive of her. Tal Ilan follows the ways this was done and in doing so she encounters similar patterns in which other Jewish women in antiquity were silenced, censored, and edited out.

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Author

Tal Ilan, Ṭal Ilan

Publisher

Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. KG

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9783161587092

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Religion, History

Updated

2026-03-24