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Gilgamesh and the Inevitable
Title: Gilgamesh and the Inevitable
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 2137 | Pages: 9.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Gilgamesh and the Inevitable
The Hebrew Bible and Sexism
The Hebrew Bible is a book of wisdom. Within its pages are many noble and just intentions that, in practice, would benefit all of mankind. The Ten Commandments, for instance, are generally altruistic in aim. If everyone obeyed them, the world would certainly be a better place. And although these passages serve to benefit mankind there are many within the scripture that simply don’t. Many of these segments support …showed first 75 words of 2137 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2137 total…feel the Bible intended on presenting man as superior to woman.
Bibliography
1) Holy Bible. New International Version. Zondervan Publishing; NY, 1973
2) Bird, Phyllis: Women in the Old Testament. Simon and Schuster; NY, 1974
3) Bach, Alice: Women, Seduction, and Betrayal in Biblical Narrative. Cambridge University Press; NY, 1997
4)Bach, Alice: The Pleasure of Her Text: Feminist Readings of Biblical and Historical Texts. Trinity Press Int’l; Philadelphia, 1990
5) Bachofen, J.J.: Myth, Religion, and Mother Right. Princeton University Press; NJ, 1992
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