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Discovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context
by: 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 patriarchy, but rather as strong and significant actors within their families and society.

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 210
EAN: 9780195065817
ISBN: 0195065816
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: January 10, 1991
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA

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Fundamental to studying women in the bible.

This book is a well written one that sure to be an enlightening experience. Although this book was written in the late 70s, it was written at a time when academic feminist research of the bible was in it's infancy and consequently I find it a must read for any serious study of the subject. The book discusses a survey of feminist research both religious and otherwise up to the point the book was written and addresses various flaws and misdirections the author feels exists in the methodologies that ... Read More

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