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Poor Banished Children of Eve

Woman as Evil in the Hebrew Bible
  • ISBN-13: 9780800634575
  • Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
    Imprint: AUGSBURG BOOKS
  • Edited by Gale A. Yee
  • Price: AUD $69.99
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  • Local release date: 02/12/2003
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 312 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Biblical commentaries [HRCG1]Islam [HRH]
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What gave rise to symbolizing woman as evil in the biblical tradition and other ancient Near Eastern societies? Taking her title from a Roman Catholic prayer called "Hail Holy Queen," Yee investigates the history of this hostile tradition of symbolization, including Eve in Genesis, Gomer in Hosea, Oholah and Oholibah in Ezekiel, and the "strange woman" of Proverbs. Employing a materialist literary criticism, ideological criticism, and the social sciences, she investigates how this negative imagery crops up in a variety of forms. Among her important conclusions is that gender conflicts in ancient Israel could be deflected forms of class conflictthe struggles between the king and peasants are deflected to men and women.
Gale A Yee is Profesor of Hebrew Bible and Director of Studies in Feminist Liberation Theologies at the Episcopal Divinity School (Cambridge, Massachusetts). Her books include Composition and Tradition in the Book of Hosea (1987) and Jewish Feasts and the Gospel of John (1989); she also edited Judges and Method: New Approaches in Biblical Studies (Fortress Press, 1995)
Introduction Ideological Criticism and Woman as Evil The Social Sciences and Woman as Evil The Mother of All Living and We Her Children-Eve in Genesis 2-3 She Is Not My Wife and I Am Not Her Husband-Faithless Israel in Hosea 1-2 They Played the Whore in Egypt-The Promiscuous Sisters in Ezekiel 23 My Husband Is Not at Home, He Took His Money Bag with Him-The Other Woman in Proverbs 7 Conclusion
"Yee studies texts from the 10th century B.C.E. to the post-exilic period where 'female' is a signifying code for 'evil.'... This work [is] a welcome entry point into ideological criticism of texts whose ostensible subject is gender. For someone who is serious about the Bible or justice, this book is a 'must-have.'"
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