Hebrew Bible Goddesses and Modern Feminist Scholarship
This essay first traces the association of ancient goddesses with so-called fertility cults and sacred (or cultic) prostitution to J. J. Bachofen’s once influential model of human social development, and places prefeminist Hebrew Bible/Old Testament scholarship on this trajectory. It then discusses...
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Religion compass
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