Wednesday, September 05, 2012

BAS essays on women in the ancient biblical tradition

ESSAYS FROM THE BIBLICAL ARCHAELOGICAL SOCIETY:

Janet Howe Gaines, Lilith: Seductress, Heroine or Murderer? (actually published in 2009 in Biblical Archaeology Review and already noted here)

The answer to the question is "Yes."

By the way, a lot of people think the Arslan Tash plaque is a forgery. This should have been mentioned.

I have numerous previous posts on Lilith: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here (excluding those with terminal link rot).

April DeConick, Biblical Views: How the Mother God Got Spayed (the first installment of her new Biblical Archaeology Review column)

This essay deals in part with the question of the place of women in early Christianity raised in the previous post: Gnosticism in the media.