Introduction -- Cultural paradigms : blessed like Eve -- Personal and communal liturgy : prayers to the matriarchs -- At her husband's behest : Deborah and Yael -- Women as fiscal agents : charitable like Abigail -- A woman of every season : Jephthah's daughter -- From medieval life to the Bible ... and back
Summary
In Biblical Women and Jewish Daily Life in the Middle Ages, Elisheva Baumgarten examines how medieval Jewish engagement with the Bible--especially in the tellings, retellings, and illustrations of stories of women--offers a window onto aspects of the daily lives and cultural mentalités of Ashkenazic Jews in the High Middle Ages
