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Discovering Eve : ancient Israelite women in context /
The biblical image of Eve has powerfully influenced ideas about women for the past two millennia. Yet, as Carol Meyers argues in Discovering Eve, the image of the first of women as subservient and dependent does not represent some irreducible historical truth. Rather, it represents the androcentric...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1991, ©1988.
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| Colección: | Oxford paperbacks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The biblical image of Eve has powerfully influenced ideas about women for the past two millennia. Yet, as Carol Meyers argues in Discovering Eve, the image of the first of women as subservient and dependent does not represent some irreducible historical truth. Rather, it represents the androcentric constructions of a group of urban elite males (including, most notably, the Apostle Paul and Rabbi Yohannan) who had a decisive effect on the founding of Judaeo-Christian traditions. Meyers produces convincing evidence, archaeological, scriptural, and sociological, that ancient Israelite woman fulfilled a role very different from that of the biblical Eve. The real Eve, she demonstrates, was a figure of some social substance, a strong and important figure in the social and familial milieux. |
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| Notas: | Originally published in hardcover edition by Oxford University Press in 1988. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 238 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-227) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 1423736990 9781423736998 1280525231 9781280525230 |