Gender and law in the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East
By: edited by Victor H. Matthews, Bernard M. Levinson, and Tikva Frymer-Kensky
Series: Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series -- 262; Journal for the study of the Old Testament -- 262.
Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Sheffield, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780567545008
Subjects: Bible; Women in the Bible; Women (Jewish law); Jewish law; Criticism, interpretation; Women; Legal status, laws; History
Notes: Originally published: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Gender and law: an introduction / Tivka Frymer-Kensky; title: Women and psalms: toward an understanding of the role of women's prayer in the Israelite cult / Marc Zvi Brettler; title: The 'whore' of Ezekiel 16: the impact of ramifications of gender-specific metaphors in light of biblical law and divine judgment / Carol J. Dempsey; title: Virginity in the Bible / Tivka Frymer-Kensky; title: Honor and shame in gender-related legal situations in the Hebrew Bible / Victor H. Matthews; title: A riposte form in the song of Deborah / Geoffrey P. Miller; title: False weights in the scales of biblical justice? Different views of women from patriarchal hierarchy of religious equality in the Book of Deuteronomy / Eckart Otto; title: Wives and daughters, bond and free: views of women in the slave laws of Exodus 21.2-11 / Carolyn Pressler; title: Gender and law: a case study from Ancient Mesopotamia / Martha T. Roth; title: 'Lest he die in the battle and another man take her': violence and the construction of gender in the laws of Deuteronomy 20-22 / Harold C. Washington; title: The female slave / Raymond Westbrook.