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Title Celebrate her for the fruit of her hands : essays in honor of Carol L. Meyers / edited by Susan Ackerman, Charles E. Carter, and Beth Alpert Nakhai ; with Karla G. Bohmbach and Franzvolker Greifenhagen
Published Winona Lake, Indiana : Eisenbrauns, 2014

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Contents Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- A Select Bibliography of the Works of Carol L. Meyers -- Introduction: A Teacher and Scholarâ€?s Appreciation -- Charles E. Carter -- Introduction: A Colleagueâ€?s Appreciation -- Susan Ackerman -- Hannahâ€?s Tears -- Susan Ackerman -- Women, Law, and Legal Procedure in Ancient Israel -- James P. Ashmore -- Nationalist Narratives and Biblical Memory -- Cynthia M. Baker -- When It Both Is and Is Not Rape: Gender Constructions in 2â€S̄amuel 13:1â€?22 -- Karla G. Bohmbach
Speaking as “Any Foolish Woman�: Ms. Job in the History of ReceptionRhonda Burnette-Bletsch -- Numbers 5:11�31 -- Women in Second Temple Judah and the Law of the Controlling Priest -- Claudia V. Camp -- “There Is Much Wisdom in Her�: The Matriarchs in the Qumran Library -- Sidnie White Crawford -- Poor but Wise (Qoheleth 9:13�16) -- James L. Crenshaw -- Reading the Bible as Agrarian Literature -- Ellen Davis -- Israelite Women as “Ritual Experts�: Orthodoxy or Orthopraxis? -- William G. Dever
Structure and Origin of the Early Israelite and Iroquois ConfederaciesNorman K. Gottwald -- The Place of Biblical Studies in the University Curriculum -- Beyond the Religious/Secular Divide -- Sandie Gravett -- Bargaining with Patriarchy in the Book of Ruth -- F.V. Greifenhagen -- Gendered Sectarians: Envisioning Women (and Men) at Qumran -- Maxine L. Grossman -- Translating Women -- The Perils of Gender-Inclusive Translation of the New Testament -- Ross S. Kraemer and Jennifer Eyl -- Ethnicity, Culture, and Religion in Artifact and Text
The Emergence of Complex Common JudaismEric M. Meyers -- Plaque Figurines and the Relationship between Canaanite and Egyptian Women in the Late Bronze II -- Beth Alpert Nakhai -- The Story of David and Goliath from the Perspective of the Study of Oral Traditions -- Raymond F. Person Jr. -- I Sing the Body Politic: Stillborn Desire and the Birth of Israel in Judges 5 -- Anathea Portier-Young
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Meyers, Carol L
SUBJECT Meyers, Carol L. fast
Bible -- Feminist criticism. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93004310
Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible fast
Bible. Old Testament fast
Subject Women in the Bible.
Bible and feminism.
BIBLES -- General.
RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- General.
RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- Handbooks.
Bible and feminism
Feminist criticism
Women in the Bible
Genre/Form Festschriften
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Festschriften.
Form Electronic book
Author Meyers, Carol L., honouree.
Ackerman, Susan, editor.
LC no. 2014043469
ISBN 9781575067117
1575067110