Rediscovering Eve

Ancient Israelite Women in Context

Bibliographic Data

ID7533416
AuthorsCarol Meyers (0000-0002-4277-4595, corresponding author), Carol L Meyers
Year2012
Pages312
Publication date2012-12-27
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueRediscovering Eve (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199734559.001.0001
OpenAlexW4242858571
Open LibraryOL25238984M
ISBN9780199734559
LanguageEN
Citations received17

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 than ordinary Israelite women. Drawing on archaeological discoveries and ethnographic information as well as biblical texts, the book 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, it challenges the very notion of patriarchy as an appropriate designation for Israelite society

Art · Elite · Ethnography · Literature · Order (exchange · Patriarchy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Development, Ethics, and Society · Gender Studies · History · Law · Mormonism, Religion, and History · Altes Testament · Frau · Historia · Jewish women · Judiska kvinnor · Kvinnor i bibeln · Kvinnor och judendom · Manners and customs · Palestine · Social life and customs · To 70 A.D · Women in Judaism · Women in the Bible

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