Discovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context

by Carol Meyers

2020-12-31 05:00:53

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 ... Read more
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 ancientIsraelite 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 villagelife in ancient Palestine, Meyers depicts Israelite women not as submissive chattel in an oppressive patriarchy, but rather as strong and significant actors within their families and society. Less

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File size7.99 X 5.31 X 0.51 in
Print pages256
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date January 1, 1991
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780195065817
Carol Meyers holds the Mary Grace Wilson Professorship in Religion at Duke University. A specialist in biblical studies and archaeology, she is a prominent scholar in the study of women in the biblica...

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