Discovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context (1988 Meyers), book

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Discovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context (1988) is a book by Carol L. Meyers.

Abstract

"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 ancient Palestine, Meyers depicts Israelite women not as submissive chattel in an oppressive patriarchy, but rather as strong and significant actors within their families and society."--Publisher description

Editions

Published in Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, 1988 (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, 59).

Table of contents

Women in first-century Mediterranean cultures. Women and their roles in Greece, Macedonia, Asia Minor and Egypt ; Women and their roles in Rome -- Women and the physical family in the Pauline epistles. 1 Corinthians 7 ; The haustafel ; Incidental Pauline references to women's roles in marriage and the family -- Women and the family of faith in the Pauline epistles. Rite and rights for women (Gal 3.28) ; An unveiled threat? (1 Cor 11.2-16) ; Silence in all the churches? (1 Cor 14.33b-36) ; Paul and his co-workers ; The pastoral epistles : proto-gnostic problems -- Women and the third evangelist. Women in the ministry of Jesus ; Women in the resurrection narratives ; Women in the birth narratives ; The book of Acts : women in the primitive church -- Women in the churches of Matthew, Mark, and John. Mark ; Matthew ; John -- Trajectories beyond the New Testament era. Asceticism and views of human sexuality ; Gnosticism ; Prophecy, prophetesses, and Montanism ; Church order Types, examples, and images.

External links

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