Gender and the Heterarchy Alternative for Re-Modeling Ancient Israel
“Patriarchy,” a social science model denoting male dominance, has long been used to represent ancient Israel. However, its validity as a model can be contested. This paper first reviews the history of the patriarchy model in social-science and biblical scholarship, showing how it arose when nineteen...
| Published in: | The Oxford handbook of feminist approaches to the Hebrew Bible |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Oxford University Press
2020
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| In: |
The Oxford handbook of feminist approaches to the Hebrew Bible
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Gender
/ Israel (Antiquity)
/ Woman
/ Patriarchate
/ Household
/ Social sciences
/ Model
/ Feminism
/ Exegesis
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy HA Bible |
| Further subjects: | B
Stade, Bernhard
B Gender-Archäologie B Heterarchat |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | “Patriarchy,” a social science model denoting male dominance, has long been used to represent ancient Israel. However, its validity as a model can be contested. This paper first reviews the history of the patriarchy model in social-science and biblical scholarship, showing how it arose when nineteenth-century anthropologists used Greek and Roman sources (mainly legal texts) in their study of the family, and was then expanded by sociologists (e.g. Weber) to indicate society-wide male dominance; biblical scholarship took up both aspects of the model. It then describes how the patriarchy model has been challenged in several areas: classical scholarship, research on Israelite women, and feminist theory. It concludes by suggesting that “heterarchy” is a more appropriate model. |
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| ISBN: | 0190462698 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Oxford handbook of feminist approaches to the Hebrew Bible
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190462673.013.16 |