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Ein informatives Sachbuch zur Alltagswelt der Frauen zur Zeit des Alten und Neuen Testaments. Der Band behandelt die Themen: Stellung der Frau in der Familie, Sexualität, Erotik, Prostitution, Stationen im Leben einer Frau, Tätigkeiten von Frauen, Frauen und Religion, Klagefrauen, Frauen und Musik, Körperpflege, Kosmetik, Haartracht, Kleidung, Schleier, Schmuck. Ein hilfreiches Nachschlagewerk, das schnell auf den Punkt kommt!

This groundbreaking study looks beyond biblical texts, which have had a powerful influence over our views of women's roles and worth, in order to reconstruct the typical everyday lives of women in ancient Israel. Meyers argues that biblical sources alone do not give a true picture of ancient Israelite women because urban elite males wrote the vast majority of the scriptural texts and the stories of women in the Bible concern exceptional individuals rather than ordinary Israelite women. Analyzing the biblical material in light of recent archaeological discoveries about rural village life in anc

Eliezer Berkovits's views on the status of women within Judaism are an outgrowth of his philosophy of the nature and function of halakah. He believed that Torat Hayyim, a living Torah, must speak to the unique needs of each particular generation and that human beings must take an active role in shaping that Torah. Berkovits's interest in the status of women did not stem from any particular affinity to feminism and the modern woman's cause. Rather, he sensed that this problem was the issue of the day facing traditional Judaism. Berkovits was unwilling to say that halakah has no answers for the contemporary woman. For him to do so would be to admit that Torah is morally deficient and not eternally valid or relevant and would constitute an affront to God's name. His belief in the power of the halakic system and his desire to defend the moral dignity of God's law spurred him, as a legal authority, to address women's spiritual, religious, and ritual needs in the modern day.

1. Eve and Israelite women: understanding the task -- 2. Resources for the task -- 3. Setting the scene: the ancient environment -- 4. Eve in Eden: Genesis 2-3 -- 5. Eve out of Eden: Genesis 3:16 -- 6. Eve's world: the household -- 7. Women and household maintenance, part I: economic, reproductive, and socio-political activities -- 8. Women and household maintenance, part II: religious activities excursus: professional women -- 9. Gender and society: reconstructing relationships, rethinking systems -- Epilogue: Beyond the Hebrew Bible.