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Carol Meyers

Double Vision: Textual and Archaeological Images of Women

Section: Articles
Volume 5 (2016) / Issue 2, pp. 112-131 (20)
Published 09.07.2018
DOI 10.1628/219222716X14683342142262
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Summary
The study of women in several disciplines reveals a disjunction between the images in normative texts and the information gleaned from other sources. The social reality of women's lives is thus best reconstructed using a variety of sources. For ancient Israel, archaeology is the main alternative source. The archaeological data require interpretation that engages social science disciplines; in so doing, they provide a glimpse of the daily lives of ordinary women.