Daughters of Miriam : women prophets in ancient Israel
Daughters of Miriam : women prophets in ancient Israel
- 자료유형
- 단행본 서양서
- 최종처리일시
- 20090618175956
- ISBN
- 9780800662585 (alk. paper) : $23
- ISBN
- 080066258X (alk. paper)
- DDC
- 221.15082-22
- 청구기호
- 221.15082 G131d
- 저자명
- Gafney, Wilda , 1966-
- 서명/저자
- Daughters of Miriam : women prophets in ancient Israel / edited by Wilda Gafney
- 발행사항
- Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, c2008
- 형태사항
- x, 222 p ; 22 cm
- 서지주기
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-206) and indexes.
- 일반주제명
- Women in the Bible
- 일반주제명
- Women prophets
- 일반주제명
- Women in Christianity
- 책소개
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There are untold numbers of female prophets hiding in the masculine grammar and androcentric focus of the Hebrew scriptures. There are women-prophets in the communities around biblical Israel, existing for hundreds of years and even a thousand years before the Israelite and Judean prophets recorded their messages. The rabbinic and Christian fathers analyzed and found more women in the scriptures who function as prophets than the biblical authors identify. All of these female prophets have an intimate connection with the God of Israel; they express that connection by singing, dancing, drumming, speaking with and for God, waging war, performing miracles, exercising statecraft, and giving birth. Each of them is a daughter of Miriam, the mother of all women-prophets.
Women prophets gave powerful voice to Yahwist faith at the formative moments in ancient Israels development, and were expected in biblical visions of the future. Now they come to the foreground as Wilda C. Gafney explores prophetic practices in ancient Israel, different models for womens sacred roles in the Near Eastern environment, and changing understandings of womens leadership in early and rabbinic Judaism as well.