Gender and Law in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: October 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

VICTOR H. MATTHEWS, BERNARD M. LEVINSON and TIKVA FRYMER-KENSKY (eds.), Gender and Law in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East (JSOTSup 262; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998). Pp. 251. L35, $57.50.

This collection emerged from a special session of the Biblical Law Group of the Society of Biblical Literature, celebrating the centennial of the publication of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Woman's Bible (2 vols.; New York: European Publishing, 1895-98). The essays in this volume represent two complementary ideas: the insight of Stanton that biblical law enforces and reinscribes ...

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