Rediscovering Eve : ancient Israelite women in context
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Rediscovering Eve : ancient Israelite women in context
Oxford University Press, c2013
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-274) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 and significant actors within their families and society. In so doing,
she challenges the very notion of patriarchy as an appropriate designation for Israelite society.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Notes on Translations, Transcriptions, and Documentation
- 1. Eve and Israelite Women: Understanding the Task
- 2. Resources for the Task
- 3. Setting the Scene: The Ancient Environment
- 4. Eve in Eden: Genesis 2-3
- 5. Eve out of Eden: Genesis 3:16
- 6. Eve's World: The Household
- 7. Women and Household Maintenance, Part I: Economic, Reproductive, and Socio-Political Activities
- 8. Women and Household Maintenance, Part II: Religious Activities
- 9. Excursus: Professional Women
- 10. Gender and Society: Reconstructing Relationships, Rethinking Systems
- Epilogue: Beyond the Hebrew Bible
- Notes
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