Rediscovering Eve Ancient Israelite Women in Context

Name: Rediscovering Eve Ancient Israelite Women in Context
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ISBN: 9780199734627

ISBN-10: 0199734623

ISBN-13: 9780199734627

Edition: 2013

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. Carol 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. Drawing on archaeological discoveries and ethnographic information as well as biblical texts, Meyers depicts Israelite women not as submissive chattel in an oppressive patriarchy, but rather as strong…

Book details

List price: $43.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/27/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 9.09" wide x 5.98" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Preface


Notes on Translations, Transcriptions, and Documentation



Eve and Israelite Women: Understanding the Task



Resources for the Task



Setting the Scene: The Ancient Environment



Eve in Eden: Genesis 2-3



Eve out of Eden: Genesis 3:16



Eve's World: The Household



Women and Household Maintenance, Part I: Economic, Reproductive, and Sociopolitical Activities



Women and Household Maintenance, Part II: Religious Activities



Excursus: Professional Women



Gender and Society: Reconstructing Relationships, Rethinking Systems


Epilogue: Beyond the Hebrew Bible


Notes


Bibliography


Index of Biblical and Other Ancient Texts


Index