(c. 538 B.C.E. – 70 C.E.)

See note in section on Ancient Israel. If you have any information on Jewish prophets, teachers, writers in the Second Temple period who are women, including words recorded in pseudepigrapha,  apocrypha, or Dead Sea Scrolls, please e-mail: women.biblical.scholars@gmail.com. We are also interested in secondary bibliography that specifically studies these women’s interpretation of scriptural tradition.

Elizabeth

• Luke 1:41-45

Mary, mother of Jesus

• Luke 1:46-55

Samaritan Woman

• John 4

Mary Magdalene

• John 20:11-18 (see also Luke 24:6-10)