Women in Scripture A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books and New Testament

Name: Women in Scripture A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books and New Testament
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ISBN: 9780395709368

ISBN-10: 0395709369

ISBN-13: 9780395709368

Edition: 2000 (Teachers Edition, Instructors Manual, etc.)

Authors: Carol L. Meyers, Toni Craven, Ross S. Kraemer, Carol Meyers

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Since the 1960s many biblical scholars have studied the Bible with a focus on gender. Yet such research is only slowly reaching a wide audience beyond the academy. Seven years in the making, centuries overdue, Women in Scripture is the groundbreaking work that will finally open this field to readers of all backgrounds -- Jews, Christians, and everyone fascinated by a body of literature that has exerted a singular influence on Western civilization. The editors have taken on the ambitious task of identifying every woman and group of women mentioned in the Bible, whether named or unnamed, well known or heretofore not known at all. The result is more than eight hundred articles, written by the…

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List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 3/30/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 608
Size: 8.00" wide x 9.50" long x 2.00" tall
Weight: 2.794

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Contributors


Preface


An Introduction to the Bible


Critical Biblical Scholarship



The Hebrew Bible



The Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books



The New Testament



Feminist Biblical Scholarship



Names and Naming in the Biblical World




Named Women



Unnamed Women


The Hebrew Bible


The Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books


The New Testament



Female Deities and Personifications


Additional Ancient Sources


Abbreviations


Bibliography


Illustration Credits


Acknowledgments