Discovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context
(Manufacturer: OXFORD UNIV PR - Part No: 0195065816 - SKU: 1892720)

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 ...Read More (specification)