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Re: Re: Ezra-Neh
On Fri, 02 Aug 96 17:09:33 EDT, PWEGNER@BROWNVM.brown.edu writes:
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>>The judgement in
>Egyptology is that many people were literate.<
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> So what? The mere fact that women were literate in a given society does
>not force (or even lead to) the conclusion that women in that society must
>necessarily have had a hand in the writing of religious texts! That depends
>on a whole bunch of other criteria involving, inter alia, the status of women
>in the public cultural domain. Literacy is not enough, in a society run by
>men, to ensure the participation of women in the development of the literary/
>religious/political or any other public aspects of the culture.
When the literature Bithiah, she must have brought with her to Solomon
appears in Solomon's writings, a leads to b, res ispe loquitor. I wish
she were launching a copyright case, I'd love to push it.
Tom Simms
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>Judith Romney Wegner, Providence
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