Gender in the book of Ben Sira : divine wisdom, erotic poetry, and the Garden of Eden

Gender in the book of Ben Sira : divine wisdom, erotic poetry, and the Garden of Eden / Teresa Ann Ellis.

Scholars who accept Ben Sira's comments on women at face-value or ignore parallel comments about men preclude fundamental questions about the functions of these statements and about their contexts. Gender in the Book of Ben Sira provides a distinctly-different perspective on the discourse of ge...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ellis, Teresa Ann
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : De Gruyter, [2013]
Series:Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; 453.
Subjects:
Bible. > Ecclesiasticus > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. > Ecclesiasticus
Sex role > Biblical teaching.
RELIGION > Biblical Studies > Bible Study Guides.
Sex role > Biblical teaching
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Gender and taxonomies
  • Gender and impersonal speech
  • Divine female(s)
  • Human females
  • Human female, biblical females
  • The discourse of gender in the book of Ben Sira.

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