Patriarchy Of Ephesians

Marriage and the traditional family unit is key to the success of any society even today in the United States. Family is the building block of civilization; Furth more, higher civilization is not possible without family, which is male and female marriage (Prager). Family’s make up cities, cities make up provinces or states, states make up nations. The family unit is a

We must understand Ephesus if we want to understand the Book of Ephesians. Ephesus was a large prosperous city in Asia Minor. One of the seven wonders of the world was in Ephesus. It was a large temple dedicated to a goddess named Diana (Artemis). The temple and streets were lined with immoral goddess prostitutes. It was a very wicked city and immorality flourished and flooded over into society and families. Paul was clever in using the concepts of holiness, service, and temple to reveal the power of the Gospel in how it creates a new people born of God dedicated to His holy purposes.

lawful wife. I am the head and it is the body. I am the shepherd and

Through the adventures of Odysseus the main protagonist of what scholars have called Homer’s Odyssey a great poem one of the oldest written in the literary form, Which entails the adventures of Odysseus and his crew on the high seas testing his endurance and foreseeing his future. Through these many adventures as readers, we are exposed to the Aestheticism of greek Patriarchy, Gender roles and the female characters. Odysseus is introduced as archetypal Greek male and establishes the essential rules of manhood and greek believes.

Household codes are a list of responsibilities for each member of the household. They first appeared in the Colossians chapters 3:18 to 4:1. It is believed that early Christian writers used works from Aristotle and Stoic sources as influences in their writings. In Aristotle’s work, Politics, he discusses the idea that males should be lead over females in order to keep a properly functioning home and a properly working state. In Stoic sources listing household codes, the subordinate member is listed before the dominate member of the household and a command is listed before the reason for obedience. The household codes recorded in Ephesians have been misused, in some edits of the Bible Ephesians 5:21, “Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.” has not been printed. Therefore, the message is taken and changed into something that was not intended. Another reason for abuse of the household codes is the fact that in some versions of the Bible, “be subject” is not written in chapter 5:22. The Greek translation for “head” can mean “origin” rather than always meaning “leader” or referring to

Hesiod leaves no doubt that the existence of women is on balance a terrible thing for men. Zeus ordered Hephaistos to create women as a punishment for his having been decieved.. Women were to be a poisoned gift for men, which "all shall take to their hearts with delight, an evil to love and embrace" (W&D, 57-59). In the Theogony women are called "a great plague" because they are "ill-suited to Poverty’s curse, but suited to Plenty" (592-93), among other flaws. While Hesiod offers some well-turned phrases in praise of womens’ good qualities, it is unmistakable that these positive attributes are all put there by Zeus for the sole purpose of making woman an "inescapable

In the city-state of Athens, where Shakespeare sets his play, there is a very rigid and stable patriarchy which keeps The Great Chain of Being in place. When talking about their coming marriage, Theseus, the duke of Athens explains how because he defeated Hippolyta, the queen of the Amazons, he gets to marry her due to the fact that he has God given power over her: "Hippolyta, I wooed thee with my sword / And won thy love doing thee injuries" (1.1.17-18). Hippolyta is only marrying Theseus because he is forcing her to. Hippolyta was the queen of the Amazons, a group of women warriors, who defied the patriarchy by saying that they didn't need men, but despite this, once conquered she has no power over the men. She has no choice about who to marry once conquered, similar to Hermia and Helena, just because she is a woman.

Both of these civilizations were patriarchies, causing a suppression of women throughout ancient Athens and Egypt. According to Turner: A patriarchal relationship is one in which the male head of household dominates the members of the house whether these are male, female, adult of juvenile. This patraiarchal structure is legitimized by legal, political and religious norms which give the adult male a virtual monopoly over the subordinate groups within the traditional household. In such a system, the wife cease to be a legal personality on marriage, and divorce is typically proscribed as a system for the dissolution of marriage (Turner 1987, 84-110). This system allows men to treat women as lesser beings and when abused, promotes such treatment.

The depiction of women in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament reinforces the patriarchal norms of the society in which the Bible demonstrated.

13-00068 Ari Omar Love and Friendship Second Paper Ischomachus's View on Sex and Marriage Ischomachus addressed household management and the different roles men and women take in the family issues in his long conversation with Socrates. He took a different view on how people looked at this issue.

In Egalia’s Daughters, gender was socially constructed in a way that men are considered inferior to women. In Chapter 3 of the Kirk & Okawaza readings it states that “ People are to know their places. Thus social changes such as gender, race, and class are used to establish and maintain a particular kind of social order “ (page 105). Meaning what we automatically think gets constructed through our history, gender and culture. There is a part in the story where Petronius and his mother are talking and Petronius says that he wants to be a seawom diver. His mom immediately tells him that no real menwim want to go to see. He starts to feel as if none of his ideas or even beliefs would be realistic because his hopes and dreams would just be dashed. This similar type of treatment that Petronius got from saying what he wanted to be could also be seen in society’s ideas widespread. Ba, Petronius sister, also ridicules him for thinking what he wants to be would be possible and accepted. Ba can be able to ridicule him for being part of the frail sex. Girls can be able to do that to boys because she’s just a girl and that what

in doing so parents need to say what they mean and mean what they say,

Many religions and cultures no matter how small or large have creation myths and legends that were deemed to be important to their livelihood. Mythology was a tool that was used to explain how the world came to be. It gave explanations for how the seasons change, where humans come from, why there are specific rituals for a certain culture, and structure to how societies were governed. In Classical Greek mythology patriarchy is a common theme that was used for how society was governed. Zeus became king of the gods and from the mythologies created Ancient Greece followed the ways by which the gods lived. The Greek goddesses didn’t obtain higher power unless they had to threaten another god or they were working with a male god. Patriarchy was used in mythology to promote the male domination of government and the mainstream governing forms of the Ancient Greek world. Examining the story of Hesiod's Theogony we find instances that there was a patriarchal structure.

The purpose of this paper is to explore patriarchal values that reinforce violence towards women in intimate partner relationships. This paper argues that patriarchy and the social construction of masculinity reproduce male violence against women. The following sub-issues that that will be discussed are patriarchy, capitalism, the religion of Islam, and the construction of masculinity and femininity. All the sub-issues encompass patriarchy values which allows inmate partner violence.

Feminism is described as the “advocacy of women's rights on the ground[s] of the equality of the sexes” (Oxford Dictionary, 2017). However, like any definition the term can be branched off into many different subcategories, two of these categories are: Ancient feminism and modern feminism. Ancient feminism is simply acts of feminism displayed in the ancient world, however these acts are not consistent with modern feminist acts such as women’s suffrage, but instead take the form of performing acts such as behaving without the guidance or permission of a man, acts that were rarely committed in Ancient Greece. In contrast, modern feminism is feminism as it exists today, as acts of dominance among women as the long struggle for equality between sexes begins to level out and women become more daring in their attempts to finally achieve true equality with men. Throughout The Odyssey, by Homer, there are many examples of both modern and ancient feminism, however when viewed through the lens of modern feminism, the brave acts of ancient feminism not only reveal many concerning factors of today’s inequality but achieve a level of respect for those now called ancient feminists. One example of an ancient feminist easily examined through a modern lens is Queen Penelope of Ithaca, wife of Odysseus, from The Odyssey. As the lone queen of Ithaca it was Penelope’s job to both rule her country, raise her son, Telemachus, and protect her family and any chance of her husband Odysseus’ nostos