Hedwig Jahnow

Hedwig Jahnow ( born March 21, 1879, in Rawitsch, died March 22, 1944, in Theresienstadt) was a German teacher and an Old Testament theologian who studied Rabbinic Dirge, specifically Kinah.[1] In 1919 After winning an election in the first year that women were allowed to vote she became the first woman in the Marburg city council.[2] She later became deputy headmistress of the Marburg Elisabeth School.[2] Hedwig explored women's role in the Old Testament and contributed a number of works on this topic establishing herself as one of Germany's first female biblical scholars. Jahow's work has been cited by modern theologians as foundational to the modern study on the book of Lamentations.[3][4][5][6][7]

  1. ^ Feldman, Emanuel (1972). "The Rabbinic Lament". The Jewish Quarterly Review. 63 (1): 51–75. doi:10.2307/1453353. ISSN 0021-6682. JSTOR 1453353.
  2. ^ a b "Elisabethschule Marburg: Lic. h.c. Hedwig Jahnow". elisabethschule.de. Retrieved 2022-05-30.
  3. ^ Yarbrough, Robert W. (2017). "Review of Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, vol. 13: Integrity–Jesuit Order, Christine Helmer, et al., eds". Bulletin for Biblical Research. 27 (4): 612–614. doi:10.5325/bullbiblrese.27.4.0612. ISSN 1065-223X. JSTOR 10.5325/bullbiblrese.27.4.0612. S2CID 246563719.
  4. ^ Lament in Jewish thought : philosophical, theological, and literary perspectives. Ilit Ferber, Gershom Scholem, Paula Schwebel. Berlin. 2014. ISBN 978-3-11-033996-3. OCLC 896890926.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. ^ de Groot, Christiana; Taylor, Marion Ann, "Recovering Women's Voices in the History of Biblical Interpretation", Recovering Nineteenth-Century Women Interpreters of the Bible, SBL Press, pp. 1–18, doi:10.2307/j.ctv8j6qz.5, retrieved 2022-05-30
  6. ^ Clemens, D. M. (2007). "Of Dead Kings and Dirges: Myth and Meaning in Isaiah 14:4b–21. By R. Mark Shipp. Society of Biblical Literature, Academia Biblica, no. 11. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002. Pp. xiv + 197. $29.95". Journal of Near Eastern Studies. 66 (3): 213–216. doi:10.1086/521762. ISSN 0022-2968.
  7. ^ "Job's Lament", Lament in Jewish Thought, De Gruyter, pp. 321–323, 2014-09-26, doi:10.1515/9783110339963.321, ISBN 9783110339963, retrieved 2022-05-30