Carol Meyers
Double Vision: Textual and Archaeological Images of Women
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- 10.1628/219222716X14683342142262
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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.