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Name Caryn Tamber-Rosenau
Position Instructional Assistant Professor Jewish Studies
Institutional Affiliation University of Houston
Latitude 29.7199
Longitude 95.3422
Research Interests

Second Temple Judaism; women and gender in the Hebrew Bible and postbiblical literature; feminist/queer readings of the Bible; Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha; early Jewish interpretations of Scripture

Websites https://caryntamber-rosenau.com/
Publications

Women in Drag: Gender and Performance in the Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Literature was published in November 2018 in Gorgias Press’s Biblical Intersections series.

“Biblical Bathing Beauties and the Manipulation of the Male Gaze: What Judith Can Tell Us about Bathsheba and Susanna” was published in fall 2017 in the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion.

“Female Diplomats in Jewish Elephantine? A New Look at a Papyrus from the Yedaniah Archive.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 40 (2016): 491-510.

“The ‘Mothers’ Who Weren’t: Motherhood Imagery and Childless Women Warriors in Early Jewish Literature,” in Images of Mothers in Jewish Culture (ed. Jane Kanarek, Marjorie Lehman, and Simon J. Bronner), Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2017. (In press)

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