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Carol Meyers is renowned for her expertise in many fields: the use
of social-science methodologies to understand the Bible and the
world of Iron Age Israel; the archaeology of ancient Israel,
especially important sites of the Second Temple period; and the
study of women in the Bible and in ancient Israel. In this volume,
some of Meyers’s foremost scholarly peers honor her by offering
essays that build on her work and depend on her expertise. For
example, Norman K. Gottwald uses a social-scientific analysis to
continue his groundbreaking work on the structure of the early
Israelite confederacy; Eric Meyers discusses how certain Second
Temple artifacts, such as ossuaries and bathing installations,
might be used as markers of Jewish ethnicity; and Ross S. Kraemer,
in conjunction with Jennifer Eyl, takes on the issue of how women
are represented (or not) in Bible translators’ renderings of
certain ambiguously gendered terms. Joining this community of Carol
Meyers’s peers are some of her most noted students, who also have
contributed essays that speak to Meyers’s many areas of interest
and expertise and reflect what they have learned from her about,
especially, the study of women in the Bible and in ancient Israel,
and the application of social-scientific approaches to biblical
studies. Moreover, as Meyers’s work spans the millennium-long
history of the Iron Age and the Second Temple period, so do the
essays of Meyers’s students, with offerings that consider some of
the earliest texts in the Bible (Judges 5), as well as texts that
come from the Second Temple archive of scrolls discovered at
Qumran. The result is a collection of essays that are as richly
multifaceted as is the work of the extraordinary scholar whose
career they honor.
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