Digging up Deborah: Recent Hebrew Bible Scholarship on Gender and the Contribution of Archaeology
Susan Ackerman notes how feminist scholarship of the last twenty-five years has tended to focus on literary studies of the Hebrew Bible rather than historical studies. Preferring more attention being given to the latter, Ackerman, a biblical scholar, looks to archaeology to fill the gap where texts...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press
2003
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Near Eastern archaeology
Year: 2003, Volume: 66, Issue: 4, Pages: 172-184 |
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| Summary: | Susan Ackerman notes how feminist scholarship of the last twenty-five years has tended to focus on literary studies of the Hebrew Bible rather than historical studies. Preferring more attention being given to the latter, Ackerman, a biblical scholar, looks to archaeology to fill the gap where texts are incomplete. Building on Carol Meyers' work, Ackerman suggests that the portrait of women in the book of Judges can resonate with village-based demographics of the Iron I period. For the Iron II period, she finds that texts and archaeology alike support women's roles in bread-making and textile production, with certain texts suggesting these to be acts of religious devotion. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-5404 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Near Eastern archaeology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3557917 |