Discovering Eve Ancient Israelite Women in Context

Name: Discovering Eve Ancient Israelite Women in Context
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ISBN: 9780195065817

ISBN-10: 0195065816

ISBN-13: 9780195065817

Edition: 1988 (Reprint)

Authors: Carol Meyers

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This groundbreaking study looks beyond biblical texts, which have had a powerful influence over our views of women's roles and worth, in order to reconstruct the typical everyday lives of women in ancient Israel. Meyers argues that biblical sources alone do not give a true picture of ancient Israelite women because urban elite males wrote the vast majority of the scriptural texts and the stories of women in the Bible concern exceptional individuals rather than ordinary Israelite women. Analyzing the biblical material in light of recent archaeological discoveries about rural village life in ancient Palestine, Meyers depicts Israelite women not as submissive chattel in an oppressive…

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List price: $37.99
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/10/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.31" wide x 7.99" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Preface


Note on Translations, Transcriptions, and Documentation



Eve as the Symbol of Women: Understanding the Task



The Problem of Patriarchy



Setting the Scene: The Highland Environment of Ancient Israel



The Genesis Paradigms for Female Roles, Part I: Genesis 2-3



The Genesis Paradigms for Female Roles, Part Ii: Genesis 3: 16



Household Functions and Female Roles



Reconstructing Gender Relationships


Epilogue: the Monarchy and Beyond


Notes


Bibliography


Index of Scriptural References


General Index