Women at work in the Deuteronomistic history / Mercedes L. Garcia Bachmann.
Series: International voices in biblical studies ; number 4.Publisher: Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, [2013]Copyright date: �2013Description: 1 online resource (430 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781589837553 (paper binding : alk. paper)
- 9781589837614 (hardcover binding : alk. paper)
- 9781589837560 (e-book)
- 221.8/3054 22
- BS1199.W7 G38 2013eb

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
An overview of female labor in the Hebrew Bible --The challenge of studying working women -- Standing on the shoulders of our predecessors -- Society's conditions affecting women's lives in ancient Israel -- Female slaves and dependents, literal and ideological, in Israel -- Hide and seek: miscellaneous women -- Female workers related to the royal household -- Prostitutes or "sex workers" -- Reassessing the social location of female in DtrH.
Description based on print version record.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.