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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Main Author: Day, Peggy L. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2012
In: Religion compass
Year: 2012, Volume: 6, Issue: 6, Pages: 298-308
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