Discovering Eve : Ancient Israelite Women in Context
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 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. Analyzing the biblical material in light of recent archaeological discoveries about rural village life in anc
1 online resource (210 pages)
9780195362190, 0195362195
1052585718
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Preface
Note on Translations, Transcriptions, and Documentation
Contents
1 Eve as the Symbol of Women: Understanding the Task
2 The Problem of Patriarchy
3 Setting the Scene: The Highland Environment of Ancient Israel
4 The Genesis Paradigms for Female Roles, Part I: Genesis 2-3
5 The Genesis Paradigms for Female Roles, Part II: Genesis 3:16
6 Eve's World: The Family Household
7 Household Functions and Female Roles
8 Reconstructing Gender Relationships
Epilogue: The Monarchy and Beyond
Notes