Discovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Discovering Eve The everyday life of women in ancient Israel cannot be reconstructed from Biblical sources alone. This study uses archaeological and anthropological research to form a picture of women's status and way of life at this time.
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Published: 10 January 1991
- Format: Paperback 252 pages
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- Categories: Gender Studies: Women | Jewish Studies | Anthropology | Biblical Archaeology | History Of Religion
- ISBN 13: 9780195065817 ISBN 10: 0195065816
- Sales rank: 558,999
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Full description for Discovering Eve
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.
