Albertina Oegema is Postdoctoral Researcher in New Testament Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.Seth A. Bledsoe is Assistant Professor of Ancient Judaism at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

• Foreword (Mira Balberg)Introduction (Albertina Oegema and Seth A. Bledsoe)Section 1: Old Age, Wisdom, and Authority1. Old and Young in Philo’s Legatio ad Gaium (Barry Hartog)2. “O Glorious Wisdom in an Ugly Vessel”: Old Age, Wisdom, and Wine in Rabbinic Literature (Lieve M. Teugels)3. Old Age and Political System Change in Ancient Rome (Christoph Michels)Section 2: Old Age, Gender, and Social Dynamics4. Beyond Gender: Polycarp’s Martyrdom at the Intersection of Old Age and Masculinity (Peter-Ben Smit)5. “Wearing Clothes of a Young Woman”: The Agency of Elderly Women in Tannaitic Literature (Albertina Oegema)Section 3: Old Age, Anxiety, and Familial Discourse6. Dying in Peace: Old Age and Death Anxiety in the Hebrew Bible and in the Ancient Near East (Klaas Spronk)7. Diverse Representations of Old Age in Literary and Iconographic Works of Classical Athens (Silvana Dayan)8. Old Age and the Ethical Discourse of Familial Reciprocity among the Aramaic Documents from Elephantine (Seth A. Bledsoe)Section 4: Old Age, the Body, and Disability9. Ambivalences in the Process and Prolongation of Ageing in the Hebrew Bible (Hugh Pyper)10. A Disabled Patriarch: John Chrysostom’s Use of Disability Discourse in His Characterization of Abraham (Chris L. de Wet)

Albertina Oegema is Postdoctoral Researcher in New Testament Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.Seth A. Bledsoe is Assistant Professor of Ancient Judaism at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

• Foreword (Mira Balberg)Introduction (Albertina Oegema and Seth A. Bledsoe)Section 1: Old Age, Wisdom, and Authority1. Old and Young in Philo’s Legatio ad Gaium (Barry Hartog)2. “O Glorious Wisdom in an Ugly Vessel”: Old Age, Wisdom, and Wine in Rabbinic Literature (Lieve M. Teugels)3. Old Age and Political System Change in Ancient Rome (Christoph Michels)Section 2: Old Age, Gender, and Social Dynamics4. Beyond Gender: Polycarp’s Martyrdom at the Intersection of Old Age and Masculinity (Peter-Ben Smit)5. “Wearing Clothes of a Young Woman”: The Agency of Elderly Women in Tannaitic Literature (Albertina Oegema)Section 3: Old Age, Anxiety, and Familial Discourse6. Dying in Peace: Old Age and Death Anxiety in the Hebrew Bible and in the Ancient Near East (Klaas Spronk)7. Diverse Representations of Old Age in Literary and Iconographic Works of Classical Athens (Silvana Dayan)8. Old Age and the Ethical Discourse of Familial Reciprocity among the Aramaic Documents from Elephantine (Seth A. Bledsoe)Section 4: Old Age, the Body, and Disability9. Ambivalences in the Process and Prolongation of Ageing in the Hebrew Bible (Hugh Pyper)10. A Disabled Patriarch: John Chrysostom’s Use of Disability Discourse in His Characterization of Abraham (Chris L. de Wet)

Albertina Oegema is Postdoctoral Researcher in New Testament Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.Seth A. Bledsoe is Assistant Professor of Ancient Judaism at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

• Foreword (Mira Balberg)Introduction (Albertina Oegema and Seth A. Bledsoe)Section 1: Old Age, Wisdom, and Authority1. Old and Young in Philo’s Legatio ad Gaium (Barry Hartog)2. “O Glorious Wisdom in an Ugly Vessel”: Old Age, Wisdom, and Wine in Rabbinic Literature (Lieve M. Teugels)3. Old Age and Political System Change in Ancient Rome (Christoph Michels)Section 2: Old Age, Gender, and Social Dynamics4. Beyond Gender: Polycarp’s Martyrdom at the Intersection of Old Age and Masculinity (Peter-Ben Smit)5. “Wearing Clothes of a Young Woman”: The Agency of Elderly Women in Tannaitic Literature (Albertina Oegema)Section 3: Old Age, Anxiety, and Familial Discourse6. Dying in Peace: Old Age and Death Anxiety in the Hebrew Bible and in the Ancient Near East (Klaas Spronk)7. Diverse Representations of Old Age in Literary and Iconographic Works of Classical Athens (Silvana Dayan)8. Old Age and the Ethical Discourse of Familial Reciprocity among the Aramaic Documents from Elephantine (Seth A. Bledsoe)Section 4: Old Age, the Body, and Disability9. Ambivalences in the Process and Prolongation of Ageing in the Hebrew Bible (Hugh Pyper)10. A Disabled Patriarch: John Chrysostom’s Use of Disability Discourse in His Characterization of Abraham (Chris L. de Wet)