Guest Lecture!
"Women in the Bible"
- Women are a metaphor in the Bible
- humans that are designated female by culture; no biology.
- There is a difference between social and literary conditions.
- Eve is a metaphor.
- Menstruation in the Bible is a social condition.
- Patriarchy, Chauvinism
- Gender asymmetry
- Male metaphors are on top. Women are deceptive.
- The culture was worried about controlling the women.
- The Patriarchs: Abraham, Issac, and Jacob.
- "Man and Wife". Wife is the appendage of man.
- Women are ambivalent in a patriarchy.
- Teraphim (household gods)
- Lev 15:19 - Why menstruation is "unclean".
- "Test"ament - this is where vows are made in a patriarchy, circumcision is a vow.
- Judges 11:29: Jephthah's daughter dies to preserve the vow.
- Prophets
- Hosea 1:2
- Marries a woman with a social stigma.
- Women are metaphors for Israel, trying to worship Canaanite and Mesopotamian gods.
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