Women in the Bible, Qumran, and early Rabbinic literature: their status and roles
"Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature: Their Status and Roles portrays the tension between the unity of husband and wife and their different legal and social status from a wide range of perspectives, as deduced from the texts of the three corpora. The volume discusses the re...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Boston
Brill
2014
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| In: |
Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah (110)
Year: 2014 |
| Series/Journal: | Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah
110 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Woman
/ Bible
/ Dead Sea scrolls, Qumran Scrolls
/ Rabbinic literature
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| Further subjects: | B
Women in the Bible
B Women in rabbinical literature |
| Online Access: |
Presumably Free Access Volltext (DOI) |
| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9789004277113 |
| Summary: | "Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature: Their Status and Roles portrays the tension between the unity of husband and wife and their different legal and social status from a wide range of perspectives, as deduced from the texts of the three corpora. The volume discusses the related topics of divorce, polygamy, woman's obligations to fulfill precepts, membership in the community, genealogy and attitudes toward sex, such as rejection of asceticism"-- The creation narrative and the status of women -- Interpretations of the fall narrative -- The father's authority and responsibility, and their limitations : a debate with scholarly theories -- Women's obligations to fulfill biblical precepts -- Were women members of the Eda-Yahad? -- The polygamy rules of CD IV:20-V:2 and 11Q19 LVII:15-19 and their sources : implications for divorce and remarriage -- Asceticism in scripture and in Qumran and rabbinic literature -- Genealogy and holiness of seed in Second Temple Judaism : facts or creative supposition? |
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| ISBN: | 9004277110 |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004277113 |