Gender and law in the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East /

This striking new contribution to gender studies demonstrates the essential role of Israelite and Near East law in the historical analysis of gender. The theme of these studies of Babylonian, Hittite, Assyrian, and Israelite law is this: What is the significance of gender in the formulation of ancie...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Matthews, Victor Harold, Levinson, Bernard M. (Bernard Malcolm), Frymer-Kensky, Tikva Simone
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, ©1998.
Series:Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 262.
Subjects:
Bible. > Old Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. > Old Testament
Women in the Bible.
Women (Jewish law)
Jewish law.
Women > Middle East > History.
Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > Middle East.
Women in Judaism > Middle East > History.
Sex role > Biblical teaching.
Bible and feminism.
Femmes dans la Bible.
Rôle selon le sexe > Enseignement biblique.
Bible et féminisme.
Femmes > Moyen-Orient > Histoire.
Femmes > Droit juif > Législation.
Femmes > Droit > Moyen-Orient > Législation.
Droit juif.
BIBLES > General.
RELIGION > Biblical Reference > General.
RELIGION > Biblical Reference.
Sex role > Biblical teaching
Bible and feminism
Jewish law
Women
Women in Judaism
Women in the Bible
Women > Legal status, laws, etc.
Oude Testament.
Sekseverschillen.
Wetten.
Middle East
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Gender and law: an introduction / Tivka Frymer-Kensky
  • Women and psalms: toward an understanding of the role of women's prayer in the Israelite cult / Marc Zvi Brettler
  • The 'whore' of Ezekiel 16: the impact of ramifications of gender-specific metaphors in light of biblical law and divine judgment / Carol J. Dempsey
  • Virginity in the Bible / Tivka Frymer-Kensky
  • Honor and shame in gender-related legal situations in the Hebrew Bible / Victor H. Matthews
  • A riposte form in the song of Deborah / Geoffrey P. Miller
  • False weights in the scales of biblical justice? Different views of women from patriarchal hierarchy of religious equality in the Book of Deuteronomy / Eckart Otto
  • Wives and daughters, bond and free: views of women in the slave laws of Exodus 21.2-11 / Carolyn Pressler
  • Gender and law: a case study from Ancient Mesopotamia / Martha T. Roth
  • 'Lest he die in the battle and another man take her': violence and the construction of gender in the laws of Deuteronomy 20-22 / Harold C. Washington
  • The female slave / Raymond Westbrook.

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