Minisode: The Creation of Patriarchy, Part 2
Breaking Down Patriarchy
Amy McPhie Allebest
4.9 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Amy discusses Gerda Lerner's The Creation of Patriarchy with guest Sherrie Crawford.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Breaking Down Patriarchy. I'm Amy McPhee All the Best. |
| 0:04.0 | Today we are going to resume our discussion of Gerta Learner's book, The Creation of Patriarchy. |
| 0:10.0 | Written in 1986, this book analyzes ancient texts in great detail, |
| 0:16.0 | chronicling the development of patriarchal systems from humans' prehistoric past through the time of the ancient |
| 0:22.3 | Greeks. My reading partner for this book is Sherry Crawford, and she's joining me again today |
| 0:27.3 | for the second half. Hi, Sherry. Hi, Amy. Thanks for being here again. Last time we talked about |
| 0:34.4 | the agricultural revolution, and then we dug into some of humanity's earliest |
| 0:38.8 | written records like the Code of Hamarabi, and we ended up by talking about the ancient |
| 0:43.4 | goddesses, Inana or Ishtar, and Asherah. |
| 0:47.8 | And so that's where we're going to pick back up today. |
| 0:50.1 | So I'm going to start with just a quick overview of Hebrew civilization and the Bible as a historical document. |
| 0:58.0 | I just want to say at the beginning, we're going to be focusing on some really hard parts of the Bible and maybe illuminating some new information. |
| 1:05.8 | The purpose of this is not to undermine anyone's very personal or sacred relationship with these stories. |
| 1:12.6 | I just want to be sensitive to that. |
| 1:14.4 | At the same time, I want to say that the facts that learner presents about biblical authorship |
| 1:18.9 | and where this text comes from are not just per opinion, right? |
| 1:23.9 | They're consistent across several sources. |
| 1:26.5 | This isn't just learner learners interpretation. There's |
| 1:29.0 | a historical record that you can fact check really easily. So let's start with just a brief summary |
| 1:34.1 | from the creation of patriarchy. So in terms of timeline, remember that written language began |
| 1:40.3 | in Sumer in about 3,000 BCE. Abraham, the patriarch in the Bible, the actual, the guy, Abraham, was thought to have lived in around 2000 BCE. And then Moses was supposed to have lived around 1,300 BCE. So the stories of the Bible, the really, really old ones, the creation, the flood, |
| 2:02.7 | and then now to Abraham and Isaac, Moses, rescuing the Hebrews from enslavement in Egypt. So those |
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