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September 10, 2020
Biblical Israel Wasn’t the Patriarchal Society Most People Think It to Have Been
Women played key roles in economic and ritual life.
According to one prominent Catholic feminist theologian, ancient Israelite women experienced “enslavement” within their families. Carol Meyers attests that her undergraduate students likewise tend to assume biblical women were veiled, subservient, and oppressed. Yet the archaeological record of ancient Israel, when combined with a more careful reading of the Hebrew Bible itself, yields a very different picture of relations between the sexes. Meyers illustrates this point by focusing on the role ancient Israelite women played in processing grains into flour and baking it into bread:
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Biblical Israel Wasn’t the Patriarchal Society Most People Think It to Have Been
Women played key roles in economic and ritual life.