This brief study provides a clear and succinct overview of the role women played in ancient Israelite religion. Meyers points out that too many scholars have left women out of the picture of Israelite religion all together, and that others have treated them simply as part of "non-orthodox" official religion. The author stresses the diversity of religious practices in ancient Israel and that we should take into account "magic" as an important avenue of inquiry, as well as "practices" (not just beliefs).
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Carol Meyers has been a leader in Old Testament studies and archaeology for thirty years. Her volume Discovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context (Oxford Univ. Press, 1988) has set the standard for the study of women in ancient Israel.
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a short and lacking treatment,
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This review is from: Households And Holiness: The Religious Culture Of Israelite Women (Facets) (Paperback)
Carol Myers' treatment of ancient Israelite domestic, mainly female religion in Households and Holiness suffers from too much compression of its subject matter. Myers meant this to be a short treatment, but it is entirely too short to do justice to the wealth of ideas present. At best, this work can be the jumping off point for further research into introductory material on ancient Israelite domestic religion.
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Meyers maintains that many of women's ancient religious practices took place in the home not the temples and have therefore been overlooked by Biblical scholars. In order to get an accurate picture of the religious lives of ancient Hebrew women one must take into account all aspects of archeology, ethnography, and anthropology as well as Biblical texts and put them into context.
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In the late nineteenth century, an English-woman named Lucy M. J. Garnett traveled throughout the Ottoman Empire for a decade, observing the behaviors of the women "of the East," as she called them: women in Christian, Jewish, and Muslim communities. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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In the late nineteenth century, an English-woman named Lucy M. J. Garnett traveled throughout the Ottoman Empire for a decade, observing the behaviors of the women "of the East," as she called them: women in Christian, Jewish, and Muslim communities. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
biblical antiquity, ritual behaviors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Carol Meyers, Hebrew Bible, Iron Age, Near Eastern, Middle Eastern New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Bible and the Politics of Exegesis by David Jobling in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Ancient Egypt by A. Rosalie David in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Manifesting Power: Gender and the Interpretation of Power in Archaeology by Tracy L. Sweely in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Ancient Egypt (Civilization Library.) by Wendy Boase in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Thompson Advantage Books: Humanity: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (with InfoTrac®) by James Peoples in Back Matter
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- Exodus (New Cambridge Bible Commentary) by Carol Meyers on page 279
- The Bible After Babel: Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age by John J. Collins on page 81
- Inside the Red Tent (Popular Insights) by Sandra Hack Polaski on page 34
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