Rediscovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context 9780199734559, 9780199734627, 2012008782

This groundbreaking study looks beyond biblical texts, which have had a powerful influence over our views of women'

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Rediscovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context
9780199734559, 9780199734627, 2012008782

This groundbreaking study looks beyond biblical texts, which have had a powerful influence over our views of women'

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The 18 essays by members of the Canadian Society for Biblical Studies published in this volume showcase the work of lead

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This book was awarded the 2006 R. B. Y. Scott award, which is awarded annually by the Canadian Society of Biblical Studi

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Modern science historians have typically treated the sciences of the ancient Near East as separate from historical and c

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The debate over history, history-writing, and the scientific study of history is reaching an apex in the late twentieth

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Did the ancient Israelites perform rituals expressive of the belief in the supernatural beneficent power of the dead? Co

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An idealized version of women appears everywhere in the art of ancient Egypt, but the true nature of these women’s lives

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This pioneering book provides a comprehensive survey of ancient Chinese women's history, covering thousands of year

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The dynamics of ancient Judah’s economy are among the most important, but also neglected and least understood, aspects o

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This book suggests a regional paradigm for understanding the development of the traditions about Egypt and the exodus in

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