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Gender and Law in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East

Author : Victor H. Matthews

Publisher : A&C Black

Page : 262 pages

File Size : 37,40 MB

Release : 2004-11-11

Category : Religion

ISBN : 9780567080981

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Book Description

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.



Law and Gender in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible

Author : Ilan Peled

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 267 pages

File Size : 22,44 MB

Release : 2019-11-04

Category : Bibles

ISBN : 1000733459

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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.



Women, Crime and Punishment in Ancient Law and Society

Author : Elisabeth Meier Tetlow

Publisher : A&C Black

Page : 362 pages

File Size : 35,87 MB

Release : 2004-12-28

Category : History

ISBN : 9780826416285

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Crime and punishment, criminal law and its administration, are areas of ancient history that have been explored less than many other aspects of ancient civilizations. Throughout history women have been affected by crime both as victims and as offenders. Yet, in the ancient world customary laws were created by men, formal laws were written by men, and both were interpreted and enforced by men.





A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law (2 vols)

Author : Raymond Westbrook

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 1235 pages

File Size : 24,13 MB

Release : 2003-08-01

Category : History

ISBN : 904740209X

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The first comprehensive survey of the world's oldest known legal systems, this collaborative work of twenty-two scholars covers over 3,000 years of legal history of the Ancient Near East. Each of the book's chapters represents a review of the law of a particular period and region, e.g. the Egyptian Old Kingdom, by a specialist in that area. Within each chapter, the material is organized under standardized legal categories (e.g. constitutional law, family law) that make for easy cross-referencing. The chapters are arranged chronologically by millennium and within each millennium by the three major politico-cultural spheres of the region: Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Anatolia and the Levant. An introduction by the editor discusses the general character of Ancient Near Eastern Law.



Gender and methodology in the ancient Near East: Approaches from Assyriology and beyond

Author : Stephanie Lynn Budin

Publisher : Edicions Universitat Barcelona

Page : 385 pages

File Size : 11,93 MB

Release : 2018-10-04

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 849168073X

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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.



Women in the Ancient Near East

Author : Mark Chavalas

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 334 pages

File Size : 19,45 MB

Release : 2013-10-15

Category : History

ISBN : 1135008256

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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.



Studies in Bible and Feminist Criticism (JPS Scholar of Distinction Series)

Author : Tikva Frymer-Kensky

Publisher : Jewish Publication Society

Page : 463 pages

File Size : 11,28 MB

Release : 2010-01-01

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0827609973

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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.



Women in the Ancient Near East

Author : Marten Stol

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Page : 690 pages

File Size : 23,54 MB

Release : 2016-08-08

Category : History

ISBN : 150150021X

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Women in the Ancient Near East offers a lucid account of the daily life of women in Mesopotamia from the third millennium BCE until the beginning of the Hellenistic period. The book systematically presents the lives of women emerging from the available cuneiform material and discusses modern scholarly opinion. Stol’s book is the first full-scale treatment of the history of women in the Ancient Near East.



Feminist Expositions of the Old Testament in Africa (Tanzania) in the Context of the Office Held by Deborah in Judges 4 and 5

Author : Hoyce Lyimo-Mbowe

Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH

Page : 298 pages

File Size : 15,90 MB

Release : 2015

Category : Bibles

ISBN : 3832537090

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Both women and men were leaders since ancient times; however, few female leaders are reported. Deborah is one of the powerful female leaders during the ancient Israel. This work explored the feminist expositions of the Old Testament in Africa, with focus on the context of the offices held by Deborah as narrated in the book of Judges Chapter 4 and 5. The exegetical part shed light onto the role played by the female leaders among the Israelites. The feminist paradigms in Judges 4 and 5 demonstrate how female characters in these chapters construct a way to disagree with what seems to oppress women and deny their leadership capability. The findings of this study determine that gender should not be perceived as having an effect on leadership in general.