The Hebrew Prophets Are Filled With Varied Imagery And

The first chapter in “Song of Solomon” immediately sets a precedence for the traditional gender roles for this particular community of the man working and of the woman taking care of domestic duties and ensuring her outward appearance matched the societal expectations (Morrison 3-4). The Author writes “men were at work; and most of the women were fastening their corsets and

From birth until marriage women were taught to retain their virginity because a woman's physical form was all she truly owned. After a women had given this worldly possession away they had no leverage and was expected to care of children and maintain the household. Loss of virginity before marriage or a lack of affection for her children were grave accusations on a woman's moral character. A woman that enjoyed sex before marriage was seen as disgraced in the eyes of God and the community. Sensationalized accounts of disgraced women appeared in magazines and stories to remind future mothers of the importance of keeping their gift. Women had to personify purity and patience, while functioning as the head of the house, all while being completely overruled by the wishes of their

The status of women in Palestine during the time of Jesus was very decidedly that of inferiors. The women is, ‘in all things inferior to the man,’ as stated by first century

The biblical allusions Gwynn makes are used to expose the problem of societal pressures women face as a result of biblical teachings. When unhappy and doubtful of such teachings, the church “instantly referred [her] to text in Romans/ And Peter’s First Epistle, chapter III.” (7-8), a biblical reading that preaches the act of suffering for God’s will and the obedience of a woman to her husband as she is the “feebler vessel”. However, Gwynn points out the flaw of this instruction when he portrays what a sinner her husband is as he “grabbed [his] pitchforks, donned [his] horns, / and sped to the contravene the hopes of heaven, / Sowing the neighbors’ lawns with tares and thorns.” (10-12).

The story of the Concubine of a Levite in Judges 19-20 may be one of the harshest examples of female objectification throughout the Bible. The story takes place during a period without a monarch. It begins with the Levite Husband leaving his home to fetch his concubine who fled to her father 's home in Gibeah. This story showcases the brutal rape of a nameless woman.

In the novel, Song of Solomon, most of the women are mistreated, and men are seen as the superior. This book addresses feminism from various perspectives. Feminism is the advocacy of women's rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes. Throughout the novel, women are not treated equally. Men automatically assume that women will take the “motherly role” and take care of all the children. All the women seem to have to reach this “beauty standard,” or else they will be embarrassed. Most of the women are sexually objectified by the men, also. Overall, it appears that men have too much control of the opposite sex in Song of Solomon. There is only a small portion of women who are independent of men, but those who are get rejected by

In the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Genesis and the Greek play Medea, by Euripides, contain female characters that can be seen as complex and have significance and meaning in the text. There are many interpretations involving the female characters, some characters may be portrayed as weak and irrational or strong-willed and wise. I will argue that, women are portrayed in the Hebrew Bible and Medea as irrational and senseless, in order for the men to be portrayed as superior and for women to be seen as inferior. This idea of the female characters being irrational and senseless can be seen in Genesis 4, Genesis 18, Genesis 29, and throughout the Medea play.

Dr. Horney’s second cause, as she explains, can be traced to “certain traits of male psychology” (343). The basic paradox of man’s attitude towards women is, “even men who consciously have a very positive relationship with women and hold them high in high esteem as human beings.” They get this from the experience they had from their mothers. Then, she goes to the “attitudes of men towards women during various eras of history and in different cultures.” Also, she insists in regards to “sexual relationships with women, but also, and often more so, in nonsexual situations, such as in their general evaluation of women” (344). She then gives us an example: Adam and Eve. She tells us that “the Old Testament is outspokenly patriarchal.” She argues that there is “no maternal goddess.” Then, she goes on to remind that the two stories in the bible are both “male bias.” She thinks that the stories of Adam and Eve “have damaged the relationship between the sexes from the earliest times to the present” with two elements: “one born out of resentment, the other out of anxiety.”

The church’s interpretation of the women is that the husband is the head of her and she should be subjected to him (The New American Bible, Ephesians 5: 22-24). In the wife of bath, her fifth husband was questioning his wife, because of all what was written of bad wives by men (Wife of Bath, pg 699). The Thousand and One Nights is centered on a good king who was deceived and hurt by his wife, which twisted his morality. He vowed to marry a woman each night and in the morning he would kill her. The king’s daughter, Shahrazad, decided to take a stand and marry the king. With her intelligence and storytelling, she was able not only to save her own life, but her kingdom as well (The Thousand and One Nights, pg 554). Shahrazad was a good wife even if it meant risking her life. Men has an impact on his wife. Yes, he is superior to her, but he needs to bring her to holiness and reciprocate her love. Husbands love your wife as much as you love your own bodies (The New American Bible, Ephesians 5:28). Make sure your wife lacks blemish and bring her to holiness and without blame

As the Wife explains, she used her sexual power to dominate her husbands. In an essay put out by Portland state University, it says that "In the Middle Ages, many members of the Church began to see sex and lust as a sin created by The Fall." This is further shown in Scripture itself in many places, one of them being 2 Corinthians 12:21:

The Wife of Bath uses bible verses in “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue.” Further, she employs the verses as an outline of her life to find reason in God to justify her actions. Nevertheless, the purpose of the verses differs within each stanza of the poem. The Wife of Bath is a sexually promiscuous, lustful, and manipulative woman. She marries men one after the other as they get older and die. In order to combat and overthrow the speculation and criticism being thrust upon her by societal norms because of her marriages, the wife turns to specific bible passages to find reason in life and support for her actions (Article Myriad.com). When the wife is having sex quite frequently and with different men she is said to be fruitful and multiplying. According to the wife, this is what she is told to do in the bible passage, which she has misinterpreted. Ironically, The Wife of Bath is using a predominantly male dominated book to back up and support her reasons for women being equal to men (Article Myriad.com). Not only has she referred to the benefits of adultery through the bible, she has also attempted to undermine the power of men in the very same way she has attempted to prove that the genders are equal. From this, it can be interpreted that although the wife claims to be providing evidence for women being equal to men, she is actually saying that women are better than men. She misinterprets the readings of the bible and male written passages on purpose in order to suit her needs.

It is tough to get a clear look into the ways Meyers interprets textual evidence since her focus on women’s religion is often marginalized. Nonetheless, she does with what she has to make a full and convincing argument. Meyers identifies that feminist biblical study is masculinized, so she decides to uncover the role of women in the sanctuary through the Deuteronomic use of unisexual terms such as “you” and “person”. In doing so, she concludes that both women and men were to engage in communal events and offerings (Meyers 2002, 279-280).

The Bible is controversial on the matter of gender equality. There are numerous contradictions about the status of women in Christian society. Historically, the most prominent interpretation has been rather negative toward women. The Christian Church, with principally male authority, emphasizes the idea that women are inferior to man. They focus on Eve’s sin leading to a punishment that “her husband will have authority over her.” (Drury, 34)

Most readers pass over the mention of the foreign wives who the narrator suggests were practicing abominations as past enemies of the Israel. Most people assume that these women were strange and foreign just because Ezra and the narrator said so. In this exegesis paper I will ask three questions Why was there opposition to the strange and foreign women? Were they foreign women or were they Jewish women? Lastly what was the status of women’s roles and rights in Post exilic Israel? "Interpreters of Ezra 9:1-15 usually focus on obedience and turning the people back to God. However, I will argue that Ezra uses marriage to foreign women as a trope to explain how the returned exiles from Babylon are the true Israel and not the people in the land who weren 't taken captive."

The Book of Judges narrates six women who are and will always be remembered by their outstanding and remarkable work. They are, Achsah, Deborah, Jael, Japhthah’s daughter, Delilah and the identity of two of them is not revealed. O’Connor (1980) suggests that, “The book of Judges” demonstrates this disparity as observed; women assume a vital function in its set-up as the volume’s subject is “marginalization” (278). Women are well known in three major roles, that is, being a mother, a daughter or a mate. Despite these limited roles, the Book of Judges shows that women are powerful and