Understanding a patriarchy: women in second century Jerusalem through the eyes of Ben Sira / Claudia V. Camp -- Philo's portrayal of women: Hebraic or Hellenic? / Judith Romney Wegner -- The "woman with the soul of Abraham": traditions about the Mother of the Maccabean Martyrs / Robin Darling Young -- Portraits of women in pseudo-Philo's biblical antiquities / Betsy Halpern-Amaru -- Revelatory experiences attributed to biblical women in early Jewish literature / Randall D. Chesnutt -- Patriarchy with a twist: men and women in Tobit / Beverly Bow and George W.E. Nickelburg -- Aseneth and her sisters: women in Jewish narrative and in the Greek novels / Richard I. Pervo -- From narrative to history: the resurrection of Mary and Martha / Adele Reinhartz -- Women in the Third Gospel and the New Testament Apocrypha / Stevan Davies -- Did ancient women write novels? / Mary R. Lefkowitz -- Women's authorship of Jewish and Christian literature in the Greco-Roman period / Ross S. Kraemer.