Explains the place of women in Israelite culture and law and the relationship of Israelite institutions to the Ancient Near East.
Explains the logic of patriarchal culture in the Ancient Near East.
Explains the obstacles to viewing the Old Testament Law and the Israelite social-legal system as normative for believers today, as well as the illegitimacy of such an idea.
Additional Resources
Books:
Carolyn Pressler, The View of Women found in the Deuteronomic Family Laws:
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Hilary Lipka, Women, Children, Slaves, and Foreigners, from The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Law
Susan Niditch, Chapter 3, from War in the Hebrew Bible: A Study in the Ethics of Violence
