Women in the Pentateuch
Subtitle: a feminst and source-critical analysis
By: Sarah Shectman
Series: HBM -- 23; Hebrew Bible monographs -- 23.
Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Sheffield
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781906055721
Subjects: Bible; Criticism, interpretation; Matriarchat; Feminist criticism; Bibel; Frau; Bibeln; Biblical teaching; Kvinnor i Bibeln; Feminismus; Women in the Bible; Women
Description: "For the first time, literary source criticism and feminist biblical interpretation are here brought together systematically. Taking into account recent trends in Pentateuchal source criticism, Sarah Shectman divides the narrative into priestly and non-priestly threads, tracing the portrayal of women in each. In both sources, as Moses comes to the fore, women recede increasingly into the background, with the result that far fewer women appear in Exodus-Numbers than appear in Genesis." "In addition to a new and detailed source-critical analysis of women in the Pentateuch, this book also provides a detailed overview of feminist biblical criticism, from the work of Elizabeth Cady Stanton up to the present, which will be useful for those interested in the history of biblical, particularly feminist, interpretation."--Jacket.
Notes: Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Brandeis University, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-194) and indexes.

English text; with some text in Hebrew.
Table of contents: title: Feminist study of Pentateuchal narrative; title: The matriarchs outside the priestly corpus; title: Other women outside the priestly corpus; title: Women in P's genesis; title: Women in P's Exodus; title: Numbers.