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Re: Re: Ezra-Neh
On Fri, 02 Aug 1996 23:23:33 AST, tsimms@mailserv.nbnet.nb.ca writes:
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>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.<
>>
>> 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 must have brought with her to Solomon
appears in Solomon's writings, the work speaks for itself. I wish
she were launching a copyright case, I'd love to help her with it!
As to the argument she was living in a man's world, that too doesn't
hold water. Sorry to contradict you, but a piece on women's power in
Egypt is too long - and too off topic - for this board. Bloom has
outraged a lot of people, I see, but his scholarship credentials are
awesome otherwise. Examine the thesis carefully, if necessary take an
outsiders view, as I do, and see if it doesn't make sense. Your "so
what" may be the mark of a frozen mind! You don't follow it with anything
but a unjustified putdown of ancient women in Israel. Where is youyr
evidence?
>Tom Simms
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>>Judith Romney Wegner, Providence
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