Was Ancient Israel a Patriarchal Culture? Dr. Carol Meyers

Theology in the Raw

Preston Sprinkle

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Dr. Carol Meyers (Ph.D. Brandeis) is an American feminist biblical scholar. She is the Mary Grace Wilson Professor Emerita of Religious Studies at Duke University. Meyers' field of research is focused on biblical studies, archaeology in the Middle East, and the study of women in the biblical world. In this podcast conversation, we talk about her fascinating essay: "Was Ancient Israel a Patriarchal Culture" (JBL 2014), where she argues for the concept of heterarchy rather than patriarchy as a better description of the role women played in ancient Israelite culture. https://scholars.duke.edu/person/carol Register for the Austin conference on sexualtiy (Sept 17-18) here: https://www.centerforfaith.com/programs/leadership-forums/faith-sexuality-and-gender-conference-live-in-austin-or-stream-onlineRegister for the Exiles 2 day conference in Denver (Oct 4-5) here: https://theologyintheraw.com/exiles-denver/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey friends, welcome back to another episode of Theology in the Ra.
0:03.3	We have our Exiles and Babylon Conference in Devra, Colorado, October 4th to 5th.
0:07.9	It's a two-day conference.
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0:16.9	this conference and I really really hope you can make it out to it.
0:19.7	Okay by guest today where do I start word, Dr. Carol Myers is a world-renown Old Testament scholar who specializes in ancient Israelite history. She is a historian, a biblical scholar, an archaeologist.
0:36.3	One of the most brilliant, I mean as you'll see, one of those brilliant people I've had on the show.
0:41.6	Dr. Myers is Mary Grace Wilson,
0:44.1	distinguished professor of Emeritus
0:46.2	of Religion in Trinity College of Arts and Sciences
0:48.5	at Duke University.
0:50.6	She got her PhD from Brandeis University in 1975.
0:54.0	She's been teaching at Duke since 1976
0:58.0	the year I was born.
1:00.0	Full, she made full professor from in 1990 a position she occupied until 2015 when she sort of retired.
1:08.4	I don't know how many books and articles she's written. I just was looking at her CV. I mean it's probably it's got to be over a hundred. She didn't even know she's written so much stuff books, chapters, articles. A couple that I would like to highlight is her book Rediscovering Eve ancient Israelite
1:26.1	women in context published by Oxford University Press and a fascinating
1:31.1	article titled,
1:32.8	Was Ancient Israel a patriarchal society
1:37.6	in the Journal of biblical literature 2014.
1:41.1	That article was fascinating. And after that and I've read several of her works
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