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Women in scripture : a dictionary of named and unnamed women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books, and the New Testament by Carol L. Meyers, Toni Craven, Ross Shepard Kraemer is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.

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“This splendid reference describes every woman in Jewish and Christian scripture... monumental” (Library Journal). In recent decades, many biblical scholars have studied the holy text with a new focus on gender. Women in Scripture is a groundbreaking work that provides Jews, Christians, or anyone fascinated by a body of literature that has exerted a singular influence on Western civilization a thorough look at every woman and group of women mentioned in the Bible, whether named or unnamed, well known or heretofore not known at all. They are remarkably varied—from prophets to prostitutes, military heroines to musicians, deacons to dancers, widows to wet nurses, rulers to slaves. There are familiar faces, such as Eve, Judith, and Mary, seen anew with the full benefit of the most up-to-date results of biblical scholarship. But the most innovative aspect of this book is the section devoted to the many females who in the scriptures do not even have names. Combining rigorous research with engaging prose, these articles on women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, and the New Testament will inform, delight, and challenge readers interested in the Bible, scholars an

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Author

Carol L. Meyers, Toni Craven, Ross Shepard Kraemer

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780547345581

Category

religious

Subjects

Memoir, Religion, History

Rating

4.31 / 5 (10 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14