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Sarah the Priestess
Savina Teubal
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Description for Sarah the Priestess
Paperback. Shows that the "Sarah tradition" represents a nonpatriarchal system struggling for survival in isolation, in the patriarchal environment of what was for Sarah a foreign society. Num Pages: 216 pages, Illustrations, tables, maps. BIC Classification: HRCG; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 363.
The only source in which Sarah is mentioned is the Book of Genesis, which contains very few highly selective and rather enigmatic stories dealing with her. On the surface, these stories tell us very little about Sarah, and what they do tell is complicated and confused by the probability that it represents residue surviving from two different written sources based on two independent oral traditions. Nevertheless, the role which Sarah plays, in the Genesis narratives, apears to be a highly energetic one, a role so active, in fact, that it repeatedly overshadows that of her husband.
In a patriarchal ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Ohio, United States
ISBN
9780804008440
SKU
V9780804008440
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99-50
About Savina Teubal
Savina J. Teubal was brought up in Latin America and has travelled extensively in Europe and the Middle East. She now makes her home in Los Angeles, where she receied a Ph.D in Ancient Near Eastern Studies from International College. She is an Affiliated Scholar at the University of Southern California. Among her recent publications are “Abraham and Castaneda,” Revista ... Read more
Reviews for Sarah the Priestess
“This is a valuable piece of original research, one which makes a considerable contribution to an understanding of the obscure origins of the role women play in the Genesis narratives.”
author of The Jewish Mind and The Arab Mind
“First we had Merlin Stone’s When God Was a Woman and now we have Savina Teubal’s Sarah the Priestess. ... Read more
author of The Jewish Mind and The Arab Mind
“First we had Merlin Stone’s When God Was a Woman and now we have Savina Teubal’s Sarah the Priestess. ... Read more