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Book: The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes

Chapter: 55. Is the Hebrew Bible Patriarchal?

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.44917

Blurb:

“Patriarchal” has become a pet designation of the biblical portrait of the model family. Yet, feminist biblical scholars have been arguing for over a decade that wives in the biblical world were not the property of their husbands.

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