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

Mohr Siebeck

Silencing the Queen: The Literary Histories of Shelamzion and Other Jewish Women\nby Tal Ilan\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Tal Ilan\nTitle: Silencing the Queen: The Literary Histories of Shelamzion and Other Jewish Women\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval\nPublisher: JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck)\nPublication year: 2006\nISBN-13: 9783161488795\nISBN-10: 3161488792\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nTal Ilan explores the way historical documents from antiquity are reworked and edited in a long process that ends in silencing the women originally mentioned in them.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 int.