Foreign women women in foreign lands : studies on foreignness and gender in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East in the first millennium BCE Internationale Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler verschiedener Disziplinen und methodischer Ansätze untersuchen geschlechtsspezifische Konstruktionen von Fremdheit im Alten Testament Ägypten und Mesopotamien. Sie zeigen dass die zugeschriebenen Kategorien Fremdheit und Geschlecht einmal aktiviert und kombiniert sehr unterschiedliche Formen annehmen können. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes untersuchen spezifische Fragestellungen individuelle Frauenfiguren und individuelle Phänomene als Modellfälle. Die Sammlung ist eine Vorarbeit und ein Grundlagenwerk für die weitere Erforschung geschlechtsspezifischer Konzepte von Fremdheit in den alten mediterranen Kulturen des ersten Jahrtausends v. Chr.Inhalts&uuml;bersichtLars Allolio Näcke: How to Become an Alien (Woman) – Sara Japhet: Marriage with Foreign Women: Yes or No – Nili Wazana: Rahab the Unlikely Foreign Woman of Jericho (Joshua 2) – Marianne Grohmann: The Philistine Woman from Timnah in Judges 14:1–15:8 – Angelika Berlejung: Solomons Soulmate: The Queen of Sheba as Foreign Woman – Daniel Bodi: When Yhwhs Wife Jerusalem Became a Strange Woman: Inversion of Values in Ezekiel 16 in Light of Ištar Cult – From Spouse to Brothel Boss (ʾiššâ zônâ šallāṭet) – Stefan Fischer: Foreign Women in the Book of Proverbs – Jan Dietrich: The Image of the Foreign Woman in Proverbs 1–9 – Hans Peter Mathys: Phoenicians and Money Bags. Observations on Prov 7 – Hans Peter Mathys: The Valiant Housewife of Prov 31:10–31: A Phoenician Businesswoman – Jutta Hausmann: Pharaohs Daughter and Ruth – Cornerstones in the History of Israel – Agnethe Siquans: A Moabite Woman as the Right Son: Ruth as Naomis and Boazs Daughter – Kristin Joachimsen: Esther in Shushan: Narrative Constructions of Otherness related to Gender Ethnicity and Social Status within the Persian Empire – Franziska Naether: Ancient Expats Wise Women and Witches in Egyptian Literary Sources – Angelika Berlejung: Forever Foreign Marriage Rules in Urban Babylonia and their Impact on the Exiles and Returnees The volume presents a collection of papers read during three workshops held in Leipzig (2016) Jerusalem (2017) and Vienna (2018). International scholars from different disciplines and methodological approaches explored gender specific constructions of foreignness strangeness in the Old Testament Egypt and Mesopotamia from their particular perspectives. They showed that when combined strangeness foreignness and gender can take on very different forms. Various processes of the »othering« of women are of importance which differ from the »othering« of men. The contributions investigate specific questions individual female figures and individual phenomena as model cases. The basic question was when where how and for what purpose the categories of foreignness and gender were connected and activated in literary tradition. The collection is a preliminary and basic work for further study of gender specific concepts of foreignness strangeness in the ancient Mediterranean cultures of the first millennium BCE.Survey of contentsLars Allolio Näcke: How to Become an Alien (Woman) – Sara Japhet: Marriage with Foreign Women: Yes or No – Nili Wazana: Rahab the Unlikely Foreign Woman of Jericho (Joshua 2) – Marianne Grohmann: The Philistine Woman from Timnah in Judges 14:1–15:8 – Angelika Berlejung: Solomons Soulmate: The Queen of Sheba as Foreign Woman – Daniel Bodi: When Yhwhs Wife Jerusalem Became a Strange Woman: Inversion of Values in Ezekiel 16 in Light of Ištar Cult – From Spouse to Brothel Boss (ʾiššâ zônâ šallāṭet) – Stefan Fischer: Foreign Women in the Book of Proverbs – Jan Dietrich: The Image of the Foreign Woman in Proverbs 1–9 – Hans Peter Mathys: Phoenicians and Money Bags. Observations on Prov 7 – Hans Peter Mathys: The Valiant Housewife of Prov 31:10–31: A Phoenician Businesswoman – Jutta Hausmann: Pharaohs Daughter and Ruth – Cornerstones in the History of Israel – Agnethe Siquans: A Moabite Woman as the Right Son: Ruth as Naomis and Boazs Daughter – Kristin Joachimsen: Esther in Shushan: Narrative Constructions of Otherness related to Gender Ethnicity and Social Status within the Persian Empire – Franziska Naether: Ancient Expats Wise Women and Witches in Egyptian Literary Sources – Angelika Berlejung: Forever Foreign Marriage Rules in Urban Babylonia and their Impact on the Exiles and Returnees