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Sarah the priestess: The first matriarch of Genesis
by Teubal, Savina J
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0804008434
- ISBN 13
- 9780804008433
- Seller
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flushing, New York, United States
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About This Item
Swallow Press, 1984. Bookplate on inside front cover. The only source in which Sarah is mentioned is the Book of Genesis, which contains very few highly selective and rather enigmatic stories dealing with her. On the surface, these stories tell us very little about Sarah, and what they do tell is complicated and confused by the probability that it represents residue surviving from two different written sources based on two independent oral traditions. Nevertheless, the role which Sarah plays, in the Genesis narratives, apears to be a highly energetic one, a role so active, in fact, that it repeatedly overshadows that of her husband. In a patriarchal environment such as the Canaan of Genesis, the situation is discordant and problematic. Dr. Teubal suggests that the difficulty is eliminated, however, if we understand that Sarah and the other matriarchs mentioned in the narratives acted within the established, traditional Mesopotamian role of priestess, of a class of women who retained a highly privileged position vis-a-vis their husbands. Dr. Teubal shows that the Sarah tradition represents a nonpatriarchal system struggling for survival in isolation, in the patriarchal environment of what was for Sarah a foreign society. She further indicates that the insistence of Sarah and Rebekah that their sons and heirs marry wives from the old homeland had to do not so much with preference for endogamy and cousin marriage as with their intention of ensuring the continuation of their old kahina-tradition against the overwhelming odds represented by patriarchal Canaan.. Not Indicated. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Diesman (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 057916
- Title
- Sarah the priestess: The first matriarch of Genesis
- Author
- Teubal, Savina J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- Not Indicated
- ISBN 10
- 0804008434
- ISBN 13
- 9780804008433
- Publisher
- Swallow Press
- Place of Publication
- Athens, Oh
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- Judaia, Judaism, Jewish History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Jewish History;
Terms of Sale
Michael Diesman
payment must accompany order. returns allowed if not as described
About the Seller
Michael Diesman
Biblio member since 2004
flushing, New York
About Michael Diesman
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- Bookplate
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