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    <title>Gender and law in the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Kensky, Tikva Frymer-</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Levinson, Bernard M.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Matthews, Victor H.</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Sheffield Academic Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1998</dateIssued>
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    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <tableOfContents>Gender and law: an introduction / Tivka Frymer-Kensky -- Women and psalms: toward an understanding of the role of women's prayer in the Israelite cult / Marc Zvi Brettler -- The 'whore' of Ezekiel 16: the impact of ramifications of gender-specific metaphors in light of biblical law and divine judgment / Carol J. Dempsey -- Virginity in the Bible / Tivka Frymer-Kensky -- Honor and shame in gender-related legal situations in the Hebrew Bible / Victor H. Matthews -- A riposte form in the song of Deborah / Geoffrey P. Miller -- False weights in the scales of biblical justice? Different views of women from patriarchal hierarchy of religious equality in the Book of Deuteronomy / Eckart Otto -- Wives and daughters, bond and free: views of women in the slave laws of Exodus 21.2-11 / Carolyn Pressler -- Gender and law: a case study from Ancient Mesopotamia / Martha T. Roth -- 'Lest he die in the battle and another man take her': violence and the construction of gender in the laws of Deuteronomy 20-22 / Harold C. Washington -- The female slave / Raymond Westbrook. </tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Victor H. Matthews, Bernard M. Levinson, and Tikva Frymer-Kensky</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Bible. Old Testament Criticism, interpretation, etc.Bible. Old Testament.Women in the Bible</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">BS1199.W7  .G48 1998</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9781850758860‎1850758867 </identifier>
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