The Empowerment of Women in the Book of Jubilees
This volume examines the unusual interest in women characters displayed in the Book of Jubilees, an interpretive reworking of the biblical narratives of Genesis through Exodus 12, written in the second century BCE. Demonstrating a pattern in the characterizations, the study shows how a matrilineal standard of ethnic purity and elevation of the biblical matriarchs function as key aspects in a polemic against the acceptance of foreigners into the community.\ The latter part of the book explores...
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An examination of biblical interpretation, this work explores the unusual interest in the characterizations of women in the Book of Jubilees, written in the second century BCE.
