Gods, Goddesses, and the Women Who Serve Them by Susan Ackerman

Gods, Goddesses, and the Women Who Serve Them by Susan Ackerman

A wide-ranging study of women in ancient Israelite religion.

Susan Ackerman has spent her scholarly career researching underexamined aspects of the world of the Hebrew Bible--particularly those aspects pertaining to women. In this collection drawn from three decades of her work, she describes in fascinating detail the worship of goddesses in ancient Israel, the roles women played as priests and prophets, the cultic significance of queen mothers, and the Hebrew Bible's accounts of women's religious lives. Specific topics include:

• the Queen of Heaven, a goddess whose worship was the object of censure in the book of Jeremiah
• Asherah, the great Canaanite mother goddess for whom Judean women were described as weaving in the book of Kings
• biblical figures considered as religious functionaries, such as Miriam, Deborah, and Zipporah
• the lack of women priests in ancient Israel explored against the prevalence of priestesses in the larger ancient Near Eastern world
• the cultic significance of queen mothers in Israel and throughout the ancient Near East
• Israelite women's participation in the cult of Yahweh and in the cults of various goddesses

Susan Ackerman is professor of religion and women's and gender studies at Dartmouth College and chair of the Department of Religion. She is the author of Warrior, Dancer, Seductress, Queen: Women in Judges and Biblical Israel and Under Every Green Tree: Popular Religion in Sixth-Century Judah.

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ISBN 13	9780802879561
ISBN 10	080287956X
Title	Gods, Goddesses, and the Women Who Serve Them
Author	Susan Ackerman
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	William B Eerdmans Publishing Co
Year published	2022-09-17
Number of pages	312
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