The Word According to Eve by Cullen Murphy

Author:Cullen Murphy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

suggests that women in ancient Judaism in fact lived lives similar to their Gentile counterparts, and that a monolithic view of Jewish women’s experience based on a few sources is impossible to maintain. Recent scholarship has in particular challenged the uncritical use of Rabbinic sources for reconstructing first-century Jewish practice . . . Some Jewish women had the right to divorce their husbands as did their Roman counterparts; some were leaders and patronesses in their synagogues; some Jewish women were educated in philosophy; some Jewish women joined men for festive and formal meals.24

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