NES 3720

Women and Gender in Biblical Israel

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025.

This course focuses on how Biblical texts represent women in ancient Israel, and how the Bible's representations constitute both a fabrication and a manifestation of social life on the ground.  We will use biblical, archaeological, and ancient Near Eastern textual evidence to consider the complicated relationship between ancient society and the textual and material records from which we reconstruct it. In addition, this course will examine how women's roles in the Hebrew Bible have been understood and integrated in later Jewish and Christian thought, and how these discourses shape contemporary American attitudes towards women, sexuality, and gender.

When Offered Fall.

Distribution Category (ALC-AS, SCD-AS) (CA-AG, D-AG, LA-AG)
Course Subfield (RS)
Course Attribute (CU-ITL)

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