Sly, Dorothy,

Philo’s Perception of Women / by Dorothy Sly ; Michael L. Satlow, managing editor. - Second edition - 1 online resource. - Brown Judaic studies ; number 209 . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

"Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License."--T.p. verso "Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program."--T.p. verso "This edition contains typographical corrections from the original."--Publishers' preface Edition statement from online full metadata page. Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--McMaster University).

Introduction -- Traditional Views of Women -- The State of Scholarship -- Philo's Language -- Woman and Virgin -- Biblical Women (I): Eve -- Biblical WOmen (II): The Others -- Biblical Virgins (I) -- Biblical (II): Sarah and Rebecca -- Biblical Virgins (III): Leah (Rachel), Dinah, Tamar, and Hannah -- Women of Philo's World -- Summary and Conclusions -- Appendix A -- Abbreviations and Bibliography -- Index.

Open Access

"Dorothy Sly's Philo's Perception of Women (1990) carefully assesses Philo's statements about women against his portrayals of different women found in the Hebrew Bible. It remains one of the few comprehensive studies of this topic."--Provided by publisher

9781951498535


Philo, of Alexandria.
Philo, of Alexandria.


Bible.--Old Testament.
Bible.--Ancien Testament--Critique, interpretation, etc. juives.
Bible.--Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish.


Women in the Bible.
Women--Biblical teaching.
Femmes--Enseignement biblique.
Femmes dans la Bible.
Women--Biblical teaching.
Women in the Bible.


Livres numeriques.
e-books.
Electronic books.