Carol Meyers
Biographic Data
| ID | 3593892 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carol Meyers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carol |
| FAMILY NAME | Meyers |
| SIGNATURE | MEYERS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke Energy (United States) |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4277-4595 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Holy Land Archaeology
This paper discusses the ways the archaeological search for the past can be affected by the situation in an archaeologist’s present. This is especially true for projects in the “Holy Land,” where religious and political issues often play a role in site selection and inthe intepretations of finds. Excavations of five sites (BethAlpha, Hazor, Masada, Jerusalem, and Sepphoris) are examined as examples
Introducing a Hermeneutics of Cispicion
A hermeneutics of cispicion challenges cisnormative presuppositions that shape and, at times, occlude the variations in gender and sex exhibited by key characters in the ancestral narrative of Genesis 12–50. It charts the progression from Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutics of suspicion, through liberation, feminist and queer approaches. Focusing on Deryn Guest's queer and trans hermeneutics, Henderson-Merrygold then offers a new strategy for reading aga…
Genesis 3
Genesis 3:16 is arguably the most troubling biblical verse for issues of gender relations and women's roles. It figures prominently in later Jewish and especially Christian sources, and discussions in those texts have influenced subsequent understandings of the verse and of the Eden narrative in which it is embedded. This article engages in a careful reading of the biblical text in order to elucidate its meaning apart from later traditions. Recog…
The Wisdom of Israelite Mothers
The two major components of motherhood are biological and social reproduction. The former is examined extensively in biblical studies, while the latter is virtually ignored. This essay focuses on the social dimension of motherhood by considering two kinds of wisdom associated with the role of mothers in socializing and educating their offspring. The first is imparting technical knowledge, mainly to daughters, who must learn the technologies of th…
Fiscal Year 2019 Honor Roll
Previous article FreeFiscal Year 2019 Honor RollPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreBenefactor ($20,000 and up)Susan AckermanArnold and Porter, LLC (in kind)Stevan B. DanaLawrence T. GeratySharon HerbertNorma KershawMacAllister MachineryP. E. MacAllister*Eric and Carol MeyersRichard F. NatarianAnn V. SahlmanThomas and Marilyn Schaub…
Double Vision
The study of women in several disciplines reveals a disjunction between the images in normative texts and the information gleaned from other sources. The social reality of women's lives is thus best reconstructed using a variety of sources. For ancient Israel, archaeology is the main alternative source. The archaeological data require interpretation that engages social science disciplines; in so doing, they provide a glimpse of the daily lives of…
Rediscovering Eve
This 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. The book 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 th…
Response to Jodi Magness's Review of the Final Publication of Nabratein
Breaking Ground
Life in Biblical Israel . Philip J. King and Lawrence E. Stager
Engendering Syro-Palestinian Archaeology
According to Carol Meyers, the field of Syro-Palestinian archaeologists has been "barely touched by the paradigm shift in the academy that has brought gender into the mainstream of scholarly discourse in most humanities and social science disciplines." Meyers offers reasons for this "intellectual lag." She critiques previous macro-level investigations (often elite/male centered) and offers directions for resetting the agenda-including, in particu…
The Origins of Biblical Law
Covenant and Commitments
Ethicist Max Stackhouse challenges libertarian and liberationist arguments that distort the nature and character of love, sexuality, and commitment. He seeks to recover a covenantal ethic, which would recapture the value of strong family relationships. The Family, Culture, and Religion series offers informed and responsible analyses of the state of the American family from a religious perspective and provides practical assistance for the family's…
Reconstructing the Society of Ancient Israel . Paula M. McNutt
A Second Lead Figurine from Tel ʿEin Zippori
Families in Ancient Israel
Four respected scholars of the Hebrew Bible and early Judaism provide a clear portrait of the family in ancient Israel. Important theological and ethical implications are made for the family today. The Family, Culture, and Religion series offers informed and responsible analyses of the state of the American family from a religious perspective and provides practical assistance for the family's revitalization
Families in Ancient Israel
Families in Ancient Israel
Yahweh and the Sun
This challenging provocative book argues that there was in ancient Israel a considerable degree of overlap between the worship of the sun and of Yahweh-even that Yahweh was worshipped as the sun in some contexts. As an object created not by humankind but by God himself, the sun as an object of veneration lay outside the bounds of the second commandment and was considered by many to be an appropriate 'icon' of Yahweh of Hosts. Through its ivestiga…
Filigree
[Heb šubbaṣȋm]. A decorative treatment involved in the fabrication of ceremonial clothing (Exod 28:20). The Hebrew word is based on the root šbṣ, which apparently refers to making a fabric with a design or pattern in it, and is also translated “checker work” in the RSV (as Exod 28:4, 39).As with man
Ephod (Object)
[Heb ʾēpȏd]. An item of priestly apparel. As a noun it appears 49 times in the Hebrew Bible, and it occurs once as a denominative verb (Lev 8:7). In three more instances (Exod 28:8; 39:5; Isa 30:22), a slightly different form of the word is used to accommodate a suffix. Since the word ephod refers t
Dinah (Person)
[Heb dînâ]. Daughter of the patriarch Jacob. She is the only female descendant mentioned in the Genesis account of Jacob and his 12 sons (but cf. Gen 46:15, which mentions both Dinah and daughters [plural] of Jacob). Announcement of Dinah’s birth (Gen 30:21) stands out in the narrative both because
Fillet
[Heb ḥâsûq]. Sometimes translated “band” or “ring” in other English versions, this word refers to a fitting of the pillars used in the tabernacle court (Exod 27:10–18; 38:10–19) and at its doorway (Exod 36:38). The former were made of silver, and the latter were golden, in keeping with the principie
Grating
[Heb mikbar]. A bronze mesh that apparently covered the upper part of the bronze altar of burnt offerings that stood in the courtyard of the Tabernacle (Exod 27:4; 35:16; 38:4, 5, 30; 39:39). This mesh was placed under the ledge of the altar, which seems to have been just beneath the rim. Its four c
Firepan
[Heb maḥtâ]. A receptacle used to carry live coals to or from the altars of both the tabernacle and the Temple. Since it held burning coals, as did censers, it could be used as a censer when incense was sprinkled on the coals. The firepans that were part of the tabernacle’s array of altar equipment
Discovering Eve
Rediscovering Eve
This 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. The book 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 th…
Engendering Syro-Palestinian Archaeology
According to Carol Meyers, the field of Syro-Palestinian archaeologists has been "barely touched by the paradigm shift in the academy that has brought gender into the mainstream of scholarly discourse in most humanities and social science disciplines." Meyers offers reasons for this "intellectual lag." She critiques previous macro-level investigations (often elite/male centered) and offers directions for resetting the agenda-including, in particu…
Genesis 3
Genesis 3:16 is arguably the most troubling biblical verse for issues of gender relations and women's roles. It figures prominently in later Jewish and especially Christian sources, and discussions in those texts have influenced subsequent understandings of the verse and of the Eden narrative in which it is embedded. This article engages in a careful reading of the biblical text in order to elucidate its meaning apart from later traditions. Recog…
Procreation, Production, and Protection
Procreation, Production, and Protection: Male-Female Balance in Early Israel Get access Carol Meyers Carol Meyers Carol Meyers is Assistant Professor of Religion at Duke University She is also associate director of the Meiron Excavation Project and, in 1982–83, was the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for research on gender roles in biblical Israel Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…
Excavations at Meiron, in Upper Galilee. 1971, 1972
The Roots of Restriction
In the formative period of Israel's history, a transformation in the status of women occurred which has had an influence on society even into the 20th century.
The Temple of Solomon
Preliminary Report on the 1977 and 1978 Seasons at Gush Ḥalav (el-Jish)
Preliminary Report on the 1980 Excavations at en-Nabratein, Israel
Second Preliminary Report on the 1981 Excavations at en-Nabratein, Israel
Of Seasons and Soldiers
Procreation, Production, and Protection
Procreation, Production, and Protection: Male-Female Balance in Early Israel Get access Carol Meyers Carol Meyers Carol Meyers is Assistant Professor of Religion at Duke University She is also associate director of the Meiron Excavation Project and, in 1982–83, was the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for research on gender roles in biblical Israel Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…
"Comment on "Trying Transformations
Changing Our Minds
A Cemetery at Alia International Airport
Discovering Eve
Chattel or Person? The Status of Women in the Mishnah. Judith Romney Wegner
Filigree
[Heb šubbaṣȋm]. A decorative treatment involved in the fabrication of ceremonial clothing (Exod 28:20). The Hebrew word is based on the root šbṣ, which apparently refers to making a fabric with a design or pattern in it, and is also translated “checker work” in the RSV (as Exod 28:4, 39).As with man
Ephod (Object)
[Heb ʾēpȏd]. An item of priestly apparel. As a noun it appears 49 times in the Hebrew Bible, and it occurs once as a denominative verb (Lev 8:7). In three more instances (Exod 28:8; 39:5; Isa 30:22), a slightly different form of the word is used to accommodate a suffix. Since the word ephod refers t
Dinah (Person)
[Heb dînâ]. Daughter of the patriarch Jacob. She is the only female descendant mentioned in the Genesis account of Jacob and his 12 sons (but cf. Gen 46:15, which mentions both Dinah and daughters [plural] of Jacob). Announcement of Dinah’s birth (Gen 30:21) stands out in the narrative both because
Fillet
[Heb ḥâsûq]. Sometimes translated “band” or “ring” in other English versions, this word refers to a fitting of the pillars used in the tabernacle court (Exod 27:10–18; 38:10–19) and at its doorway (Exod 36:38). The former were made of silver, and the latter were golden, in keeping with the principie
Grating
[Heb mikbar]. A bronze mesh that apparently covered the upper part of the bronze altar of burnt offerings that stood in the courtyard of the Tabernacle (Exod 27:4; 35:16; 38:4, 5, 30; 39:39). This mesh was placed under the ledge of the altar, which seems to have been just beneath the rim. Its four c
Firepan
[Heb maḥtâ]. A receptacle used to carry live coals to or from the altars of both the tabernacle and the Temple. Since it held burning coals, as did censers, it could be used as a censer when incense was sprinkled on the coals. The firepans that were part of the tabernacle’s array of altar equipment
Yahweh and the Sun
This challenging provocative book argues that there was in ancient Israel a considerable degree of overlap between the worship of the sun and of Yahweh-even that Yahweh was worshipped as the sun in some contexts. As an object created not by humankind but by God himself, the sun as an object of veneration lay outside the bounds of the second commandment and was considered by many to be an appropriate 'icon' of Yahweh of Hosts. Through its ivestiga…
Families in Ancient Israel
Families in Ancient Israel
A Second Lead Figurine from Tel ʿEin Zippori
Families in Ancient Israel
Four respected scholars of the Hebrew Bible and early Judaism provide a clear portrait of the family in ancient Israel. Important theological and ethical implications are made for the family today. The Family, Culture, and Religion series offers informed and responsible analyses of the state of the American family from a religious perspective and provides practical assistance for the family's revitalization
Reconstructing the Society of Ancient Israel . Paula M. McNutt
Covenant and Commitments
Ethicist Max Stackhouse challenges libertarian and liberationist arguments that distort the nature and character of love, sexuality, and commitment. He seeks to recover a covenantal ethic, which would recapture the value of strong family relationships. The Family, Culture, and Religion series offers informed and responsible analyses of the state of the American family from a religious perspective and provides practical assistance for the family's…
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