Women and Livelihoods in 1st Century Palestine: Exploring Possibilities

As the feminist 'hermeneutics of suspicion' has helped to discover more about the nature and possibilities of women in Biblical times so livelihood studies in developing countries have helped to unpack the role of women at the household level. Based on the assumption of recognised similari...

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Main Author: Orr, Sheena (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: [2010]
In: The expository times
Year: 2010, Volume: 121, Issue: 11, Pages: 539-547
Further subjects:B Early Jesus Movement
B Women
B peasant society
B Feminist Theory
B livelihoods
B Peasants
B Women in the Bible
B 1st Century Palestine
B Hermeneutics
B Palestine
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Summary:As the feminist 'hermeneutics of suspicion' has helped to discover more about the nature and possibilities of women in Biblical times so livelihood studies in developing countries have helped to unpack the role of women at the household level. Based on the assumption of recognised similarities of certain features of peasant society over time this article draws on longitudinal studies of women in households in Malawi. It takes observations from 'livelihood ladders' and discusses the possible relevance to women in 1st Century Palestine. From this emerges a fascinating picture which points to the possibility that women were more involved and important to the livelihoods process than known sources suggest.
ISSN:1745-5308
Contains:Enthalten in: The expository times
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0014524610373303