In the Wake of the Goddesses Women, Culture and the Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth

Name: In the Wake of the Goddesses Women, Culture and the Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth
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ISBN: 9780449907467

ISBN-10: 0449907465

ISBN-13: 9780449907467

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Authors: Tikva Frymer-Kensky

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The current return to spiritual values has spawned a surge of interest in the ancient goddess-based religions as a remedy to a long tradition of misogyny in the Western religions. But how accurate are these current representations of the goddess in polytheism? And did Judeo-Christian religion really turn its back on women? These are some of the questions that scholar and feminist Tivka Frymer-Kensky sets out to answer in this iconoclastic study of gender in religions past and present. Her argument, illustrated with fascinating accounts of myth and ritual dating back to the early days of Sumer, Assyria, and Greece, is that although polytheism did accord females an important role, the strict…

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List price: $19.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/10/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English