Families and family relations : as represented in early Judaisms and early Christianities: texts and fictions ; papers read at a Noster colloquium in Amsterdam June 9 11 1998 The metaphor of marriage in early Judaism Michael Satlow Why would a man want to be anyones wife : a response to Michael Satlow Judith Frishman We have a little sister : aspects of the brother sister relationship in ancient Israel Ingo Kottsieper The role of the father : a response to Ingo Kottsieper Arie van der Kooij Hebrew names personal names family names and nicknames of Jews in the Second Temple period Rachel Hachlili Source material and percentages : a response to Hachlili Gerard Mussies Domesticity and the spindle Miram Peskowitz Unraveling the rabbis web : a response to Peskowitz Lieve Teugels Keeping it in the family : culture kinship and identity in 1 Thessalonians and Galatians Philip Esler The family is not all that matters : a response to Esler Jan Willem van Henten The women in John : on gender and gender bending Sjef van Tilborg The Johannine women and the social code of their time : a response to van Tilborg Reimund Bieringer