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Discovering Eve

Ancient Israelite Women in Context

Carol Meyers author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:18th Jul '91

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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.

'The author has made a special effort to avoid technicaljargon; thus, this book should be accessible to the general reader. Though it will be of special interest to those concerned with biblical history, archaeology, anthropolgy and women's studies, this book will also hold special appeal to women, men, and their relationshiop to one another. Time Outlook

ISBN: 9780195065817

Dimensions: 215mm x 140mm x 16mm

Weight: 331g

256 pages