TY - BOOK AU - Sly,Dorothy AU - Satlow,Michael L. ED - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, ED - National Endowment for the Humanities, ED - Project Muse. TI - Philo’s Perception of Women / T2 - Brown Judaic studies SN - 9781951498535 PY - 2020///] CY - Atlanta, Georgia PB - Scholars Press KW - Philo, KW - Bible KW - Old Testament KW - fast KW - Ancien Testament KW - Critique, interpretation, etc. juives KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish KW - Women in the Bible KW - Women KW - Biblical teaching KW - Femmes KW - Enseignement biblique KW - Femmes dans la Bible KW - Livres numeriques KW - rvmgf KW - e-books KW - aat KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - "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 N2 - "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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/75938/ ER -