The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes - Philippe Guillaume
55. Is the Hebrew Bible Patriarchal?
The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes - Philippe Guillaume
Philippe Guillaume [+]
University of Berne
Philippe Guillaume is Lecturer at the University of Berne. His latest publications are A History of Biblical Israel co-authored with Ernst Axel Knauf (Equinox, 2016) and Deuteronomy in the Making, Studies in the Production of Debarim, edited with Diana Edelman, Benedetta Rossi and Kåre Berge (De Gruyter, 2021).
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“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.