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Tikva Frymer-Kensky

In the Wake of the Goddesses

Women, Culture and the Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth

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The current return to spiritual values has spawned a surge of interest in the ancient goddess-based religions as a remedy to a long tradition of misogyny in the Western religions.But how accurate are these current representations of the goddess in polytheism? And did Judeo-Christian religion really turn its back on women? These are some of the questions that scholar and feminist Tivka Frymer-Kensky sets out to answer in this iconoclastic study of gender in religions past and present. Her argument, illustrated with fascinating accounts of myth and ritual dating back to the early days of Sumer, Assyria, and Greece, is that although polytheism d… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-449-90746-7
  • EAN: 9780449907467
  • Produktnummer: 9121697
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1993
  • Seitenangabe: 304 S.

Über den Autor


Tikva Frymer-Kensky was a professor of Hebrew bible at the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. She was educated at Yale University. She is the writer of The Judicial Ordeal in the Ancient Near East, In the Wake of the Goddess: Women, Culture, and the Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth, and Studies in the Bible and Feminist Criticism. 

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