Elisheva Baumgarten holds the Professor Yitzchak Becker Chair for Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is author of Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz: Men, Women, and Everyday Religious Observance and editor, with Ruth Mazo Karras and Katelyn Messer, of Entangled Histories: Knowledge, Authority, and Jewish Culture in the Thirteenth Century, both published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

"Ingenious scholarship...Much of Biblical Women will likely resonate with modern readers, including for the ways it illuminates some of our own concerns...Baumgarten's clear-eyed and painstaking attention to her subjects is an act of true kindness for these long-vanished people. Her book [helps readers] care about them, their lives, and their moral imaginations purely for their own sakes, as all good social history should." (Jewish Review of Books) "Baumgarten not only provides an impressive number of sources on how narratives surrounding biblical women shaped the daily life and routines of medieval women but also manages to show the reader how the meaning of concepts is closely interwoven with the cultural context. The wide range of diverse sources from inscriptions to personal writings and illuminations also means that Baumgarten's interpretation and analysis can only scratch the surface of this material." (PaRDes)

• IntroductionChapter 1. Cultural Paradigms: Blessed like EveChapter 2. Personal and Communal Liturgy: Prayers to the MatriarchsChapter 3. At Her Husband's Behest: Deborah and JaelChapter 4. Women as Fiscal Agents: Charitable like AbigailChapter 5. A Woman of Every Season: Jephthah's DaughterChapter 6. From Medieval Life to the Bible . . . and BackNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgements

Elisheva Baumgarten holds the Professor Yitzchak Becker Chair for Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is author of Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz: Men, Women, and Everyday Religious Observance and editor, with Ruth Mazo Karras and Katelyn Messer, of Entangled Histories: Knowledge, Authority, and Jewish Culture in the Thirteenth Century, both published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

"Ingenious scholarship...Much of Biblical Women will likely resonate with modern readers, including for the ways it illuminates some of our own concerns...Baumgarten's clear-eyed and painstaking attention to her subjects is an act of true kindness for these long-vanished people. Her book [helps readers] care about them, their lives, and their moral imaginations purely for their own sakes, as all good social history should." (Jewish Review of Books) "Baumgarten not only provides an impressive number of sources on how narratives surrounding biblical women shaped the daily life and routines of medieval women but also manages to show the reader how the meaning of concepts is closely interwoven with the cultural context. The wide range of diverse sources from inscriptions to personal writings and illuminations also means that Baumgarten's interpretation and analysis can only scratch the surface of this material." (PaRDes)

• IntroductionChapter 1. Cultural Paradigms: Blessed like EveChapter 2. Personal and Communal Liturgy: Prayers to the MatriarchsChapter 3. At Her Husband's Behest: Deborah and JaelChapter 4. Women as Fiscal Agents: Charitable like AbigailChapter 5. A Woman of Every Season: Jephthah's DaughterChapter 6. From Medieval Life to the Bible . . . and BackNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgements

Elisheva Baumgarten holds the Professor Yitzchak Becker Chair for Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is author of Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz: Men, Women, and Everyday Religious Observance and editor, with Ruth Mazo Karras and Katelyn Messer, of Entangled Histories: Knowledge, Authority, and Jewish Culture in the Thirteenth Century, both published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

"Ingenious scholarship...Much of Biblical Women will likely resonate with modern readers, including for the ways it illuminates some of our own concerns...Baumgarten's clear-eyed and painstaking attention to her subjects is an act of true kindness for these long-vanished people. Her book [helps readers] care about them, their lives, and their moral imaginations purely for their own sakes, as all good social history should." (Jewish Review of Books) "Baumgarten not only provides an impressive number of sources on how narratives surrounding biblical women shaped the daily life and routines of medieval women but also manages to show the reader how the meaning of concepts is closely interwoven with the cultural context. The wide range of diverse sources from inscriptions to personal writings and illuminations also means that Baumgarten's interpretation and analysis can only scratch the surface of this material." (PaRDes)

• IntroductionChapter 1. Cultural Paradigms: Blessed like EveChapter 2. Personal and Communal Liturgy: Prayers to the MatriarchsChapter 3. At Her Husband's Behest: Deborah and JaelChapter 4. Women as Fiscal Agents: Charitable like AbigailChapter 5. A Woman of Every Season: Jephthah's DaughterChapter 6. From Medieval Life to the Bible . . . and BackNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgements