This volume examines questions concerning the construction of gender and identity in the earliest days of what is now Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Methodologically explicit, the contributions analyze textual and material sources related to these religious traditions in their cultural contexts. The sources examined are predominantly products of patriarchal elite discourses requiring innovative approaches to unveil aspects of gender otherwise hidden. This volume extends the discussion represented in the volume Gender and Second-Temple Judaism (2020) and highlights the fruitfulness of interdisciplinary research beyond anachronistic discipline distinctions.

Contributions by: Matthew R. Anderson, Bernadette J. Brooten, Lavinia Cerioni, Federico Dal Bo, Krista N. Dalton, Kathy Ehrensperger, Sari Fein, Sarit Kattan Gribetz, Andrew W. Higginbotham, Juni Hoppe, Matthew R. Hotham, Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel, Sara Parks, Ilaria L.E. Ramelli, Shayna Sheinfeld, Daniel Vorpahl, David Zakarian