How Long to Read Silencing the Queen

How Long Does it Take to Read Silencing the Queen?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 59 minutes to read Silencing the Queen by Ṭal Ilan

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Tal Ilan explores the way historical documents from antiquity are reworked and edited in a long process that ends in silencing the women originally mentioned in them. Many methods are used to produce this end result: elimination of women or their words, denigration of the women and their role or unification of several significant women into one. These methods and others are illuminated in this book, as it uses the example of the Jewish queen Shelamzion Alexandra (76-67 BCE) for its starting point. Queen Shelamzion was the only legitimate Jewish queen in history. Yet all the documents in which she is mentioned (Josephus, Qumran scrolls, rabbinic literature etc.) have been reworked so as to minimize her significance and distort the picture we may receive of her. Tal Ilan follows the ways this was done and in doing so she encounters similar patterns in which other Jewish women in antiquity were silenced, censored and edited out.

How long is Silencing the Queen?

Silencing the Queen by Ṭal Ilan is 348 pages long, and a total of 89,784 words.

This makes it 117% the length of the average book. It also has 110% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Silencing the Queen Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 10 minutes to read Silencing the Queen aloud.

What Reading Level is Silencing the Queen?

Silencing the Queen is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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