Gender And Law In The Hebrew Bible And The Ancient Near East

Author : Victor H. Matthews,Bernard M. Levinson,Tikva Frymer-Kensky
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567080986

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Gender and Law in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East by Victor H. Matthews,Bernard M. Levinson,Tikva Frymer-Kensky Pdf

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 ancient law and custom? Feminist scholarship is enriched by these studies in family history and the status of women in antiquity. At the same time, conventional legal history is repositioned, as new and classical texts are interpreted from the vantage point of feminist theory and social history. Papers from SBL Biblical Law Section form the core of this collection.

Author : Ilan Peled
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781000733457

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Law and Gender in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible by Ilan Peled Pdf

This volume examines how gender relations were regulated in ancient Near Eastern and biblical law. The textual corpus examined includes the various pertinent law collections, royal decrees and instructions from Mesopotamia and Hatti, and the three biblical legal collections. Peled explores issues beginning with the wide societal perspective of gender equality and inequality, continues to the institutional perspective of economy, palace and temple, the family, and lastly, sex crimes. All the texts mentioned or referred to in the book are given in an appendix, both in the original languages and in English translation, allowing scholars to access the primary sources for themselves. Law and Gender in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible offers an invaluable resource for anyone working on Near Eastern society and culture, and gender in the ancient world more broadly.

Author : Ilan Peled
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Extinct languages
ISBN : 3868351957

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Masculinities and Third Gender by Ilan Peled Pdf

Author : Hilary Lipka,Bruce Wells
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567681607

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Sexuality and Law in the Torah by Hilary Lipka,Bruce Wells Pdf

This book examines many of the laws in the Torah governing sexual relations and the often implicit motivations underlying them. It also considers texts beyond the laws in which legal traditions and ideas concerning sexual behavior intersect and provide insight into ancient Israel's social norms. The book includes extended treatments on the nature and function of marriage and divorce in ancient Israel, the variation in sexual rules due to status and gender, the prohibition on male-with-male sex, and the different types of sexualities that may have existed in ancient Israel. The essays draw on a variety of methodologies and approaches, including narrative criticism, philological analysis, literary theory, feminist and gender theory, anthropological models, and comparative analysis. They cover content ranging from the narratives in Genesis, to the laws of Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy, to later re-interpretations of pentateuchal laws in Jeremiah and texts from the Second Temple period. Overall, the book presents a combination of theoretical discussion and close textual analysis to shed new light on the connections between law and sexuality within the Torah and beyond.

Author : Tikva Frymer-Kensky
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827609976

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Studies in Bible and Feminist Criticism (JPS Scholar of Distinction Series) by Tikva Frymer-Kensky Pdf

Each of the 30 essays here delves into a topic that gives us much food for thought: the Bible as interpreted through ancient Near-Eastern creation myths, flood myths, and goddess myths; gender in the Bible; the feminist approach to Jewish law; comparative Jewish and Christian perspectives on the Hebrew Bible; biblical perspectives on ecology; creating a theology of healing; feminine God-talk. The volume concludes with the author's own original prayers in the form of poetic meditations on pregnancy and birthing. This book is unique, not only because it is the only volume in the JPS Scholar of Distinction series written by a woman, but also because Frymer-Kensky's personal and forthright voice resonates so clearly throughout each piece. Scholars and students of Bible, Jewish studies, and women's studies will surely find this to be a one-of-a kind collection.

Author : Stephanie Lynn Budin,Megan Cifarelli,Agnès Garcia-Ventura,Adelina Millet Albà
Publisher : Edicions Universitat Barcelona
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788491680734

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Gender and methodology in the ancient Near East: Approaches from Assyriology and beyond by Stephanie Lynn Budin,Megan Cifarelli,Agnès Garcia-Ventura,Adelina Millet Albà Pdf

This collection of 23 essays, presented in three sections, aims to discuss women’s studies as well as methodological and theoretical approaches to gender within the broad framework of ancient Near Eastern studies. The first section, comprising most of the contributions, is devoted to Assyriology and ancient Near Eastern archaeology. The second and third sections are devoted to Egyptology and to ancient Israel and biblical studies respectively, neighbouring fields of research included in the volume to enrich the debate and facilitate academic exchange. Altogether these essays offer a variety of sources and perspectives, from the textual to the archaeological, from bodies and sexuality to onomastics, to name just a few, making this a useful resource for all those interested in the study of women and gender in the past.

Author : Raymond Westbrook
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1235 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047402091

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A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law (2 vols) by Raymond Westbrook Pdf

A comprehensive survey of the Law of the Ancient Near East by a team of specialist scholars, this volume allows non-specialists access to the world's earliest known legal systems.

Author : Mark Chavalas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135008253

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Women in the Ancient Near East by Mark Chavalas Pdf

Women in the Ancient Near East provides a collection of primary sources that further our understanding of women from Mesopotamian and Near Eastern civilizations, from the earliest historical and literary texts in the third millennium BC to the end of Mesopotamian political autonomy in the sixth century BC. This book is a valuable resource for historians of the Near East and for those studying women in the ancient world. It moves beyond simply identifying women in the Near East to attempting to place them in historical and literary context, following the latest research. A number of literary genres are represented, including myths and epics, proverbs, medical texts, law collections, letters, treaties, as well as building, dedicatory, and funerary inscriptions.

Author : Hennie J. Marsman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 791 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004493407

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Women in Ugarit and Israel by Hennie J. Marsman Pdf

In this volume the presupposition is investigated whether women in a polytheistic society had a better position than women in a monotheistic society. To this end the social and religious position of women in Ugarit according to its literary texts is compared to that of women in Israel according to the Hebrew Bible, while the wider context of the ancient Near East is also taken into consideration. After an overview of feminist biblical exegesis, the book discusses the roles of women in the family and in society. It also provides an analysis of the roles of women as religious specialists and as worshippers. Finally, the data on the position of women in the literary texts is compared to that in non-literary texts.

Author : Dan Cohn-Sherbok
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317432036

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Judaism by Dan Cohn-Sherbok Pdf

This newly revised all-encompassing textbook is a guide to the history, beliefs and practice of Judaism. Beginning with the ancient Near Eastern background, it covers early Israelite history, the emergence of classical rabbinic literature and the rise of medieval Judaism in Islamic and Christian lands. It also includes the early modern period and the development of Jewry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Extracts from primary sources are used throughout to enliven the narrative and provide concrete examples of the rich variety of Jewish civilization. Specially designed to assist learning, Judaism: • Introduces texts and commentaries, including the Hebrew Bible, rabbinic texts, mystical literature, Jewish philosophy and Jewish theology • Provides the skills necessary to understand these step-by-step with the help of a companion website • Explains how to interpret the major events in nearly four thousand years of Jewish history • Supports study with discussion questions on the central historical and religious issues, and includes key reading for each chapter, an extensive glossary and index • Illustrates the development of Judaism, its concepts, observances and culture, with maps, photos, paintings and engravings • Links each chapter to a free companion website at www.routledge.com/cw/cohnsherbok which provides things to think about, things to do and tips for teachers as well as other online resources

Author : Angelika Berlejung,Marianne Grohmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 3161575911

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Foreign Women - Women in Foreign Lands by Angelika Berlejung,Marianne Grohmann Pdf

The volume presents a collection of papers read during three workshops held in Leipzig (2016), Jerusalem (2017), and Vienna (2018). International scholars from different disciplines and methodological approaches explored gender-specific constructions of foreignness/strangeness in the Old Testament, Egypt, and Mesopotamia from their particular perspectives. They showed that when combined, strangeness/foreignness and gender can take on very different forms. Various processes of the "othering" of women are of importance, which differ from the "othering" of men. The contributions investigate specific questions, individual female figures and individual phenomena as model cases. The basic question was when, where, how and for what purpose the categories of foreignness and gender were connected and activated in literary tradition. The collection is a preliminary and basic work for further study of gender-specific concepts of foreignness/strangeness in the ancient Mediterranean cultures of the first millennium BCE.

Author : T. M. Lemos
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191087448

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Violence and Personhood in Ancient Israel and Comparative Contexts by T. M. Lemos Pdf

Violence and Personhood in Ancient Israel and Comparative Contexts is the first book-length work on personhood in ancient Israel. T. M. Lemos reveals widespread intersections between violence and personhood in both this society and the wider region. Relations of domination and subordination were incredibly important to the culture and social organization of ancient Israel often resulting in these relations becoming determined by the boundaries of personhood itself. Personhood was malleable—it could be and was violently erased in many social contexts. This study exposes a violence-personhood-masculinity nexus in which domination allowed those in control to animalize and brutalize the bodies of subordinates. Lemos argues that in particular social contexts in the contemporary "western" world, this same nexus operates, holding devastating consequences for particular social groups.

Author : Deborah W. Rooke
Publisher : Sheffield Phoenix Press Limited
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015076142945

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A Question of Sex? by Deborah W. Rooke Pdf

Gender differences between men and women are not just a matter of sexual differentiation; the roles that men and women play are also socially and culturally determined, in ancient Israel and post-biblical Judaism as in every other context. That is the theme of these ten studies. The first part of the volume examines the gender definitions and roles that can be identified in the Hebrew Bible's legal and ritual texts. The second part uses archaeological and anthropological perspectives to interrogate the biblical text and the society that formed it on issues of gender. The third part explores similar gender issues in a range of material outside the Hebrew Bible, from the Apocrypha through Josephus and Philo down to mediaeval Jewish marriage contracts (ketubbot). Among the questions here discussed are: Why are men, but not women, required to bathe in order to achieve ritual purity after incurring certain types of defilement? What understandings of masculinity and femininity underlie the regulations about incest? Was ancient Israel simply a patriarchal society, or were there more complex dynamics of power in which women as well as men were involved? What do post-biblical re-interpretations of the female figures of Wisdom and Folly in Proverbs 1-9 suggest about heterosexual masculinity? And what kind of rights did mediaeval Middle-Eastern Jewish women have within their marriage relationships?

Author : C. L. Crouch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781108473439

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The Cambridge Companion to the Hebrew Bible and Ethics by C. L. Crouch Pdf

Balances historical and contemporary concerns in an engaging and informative way, drawing connections between ancient and contemporary ethical problems.

Author : Kimberly D. Russaw
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781978700499

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Daughters in the Hebrew Bible by Kimberly D. Russaw Pdf

While the expectations and circumstances of women’s lives in ancient Israel have received considerable attention in recent scholarship, to date little attention has been focused on the role of daughters in Hebrew narrative‒‒that is, of yet unmarried female members of the household, who are not yet mothers. Kimberly D. Russaw argues that daughters are more than foils for the males (fathers, brothers, etc.) in biblical narratives and that they often use particular tactics to navigate antagonistic systems of power in their worlds. Institutions and power structures favor the patriarch, sons inherit such privileges and benefits, and wives and mothers are ascribed special status because they ensure the patrilineal legacy by birthing sons; but daughters do not receive such social favor or standing. Instead of privileging daughters, systems and institutions control their bodies, restrict their access, and constrict their movement. Combining philological data, social-science models, and cross-cultural comparisons, Russaw examines the systems that constrict biblical daughters in their worlds and the strategies they employ when hostile social forces threaten their well-being.