Reclaiming Women in the Hebrew Bible

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Since the 1970s feminist bible scholars have been reclaiming the stories of biblical women.
From Eve to Esther this lecture will draw on both biblical accounts and cultural representations to bring their stories to life. Whether wives, mothers, and sisters; sex workers and foreign agents; prophetesses and queens; wise women and witches; victims and heroes and so much more, their stories reveal to us not only who these women were, but how their stories continue to resonate in the modern world.
A lecture by Rabbi Dr Deborah Kahn-Harris recorded on 25 April 2023 at Barnard's Inn Hall, London
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@dambrooks7578 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for an interesting lecture.

@nycbigbear Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Rabbi for your excellent and fascinating drasha

@AlannahRyane Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this I am quoting you in my book as I have been researching the women in Mary's circle who were writing.Your mention of Esther being recorded as actually writing the story in the scroll is in alignment with this. Well done.

@nycbigbear Жыл бұрын

I was taught that it is Esther who established the celebration of Purim, with her kinsman Mordecai Also that the unique absence of the Holy Name in the Biok of Esther teaches us of the quiet way in which aGod works in the world

@AlannahRyane Жыл бұрын

@@nycbigbear when I looked up 9:32 there were about 10 different versions only one used the word scroll. none of them were called the Hebrew bible. So I read the story couple different ways and I agree with what you say. However it is still hard to tell if they mean she wrote it down or she had it wrote down??

@nycbigbear Жыл бұрын

Jewish tradition is that it was a letter, which would have been in the form of a scroll in those days. When we read the Book of Esther (called Meggalat Esther & the Scroll of Esther in Hebrew) in the synagogue on Purim (the Feast of Esther), it is unrolled and folded like a letter before the reading.

@AlannahRyane Жыл бұрын

@@nycbigbear Oh thank you for that!

@dianespears6057 Жыл бұрын

Very lively and interesting lecture. Thank you.

@emilyhaas6021 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting lecture- I have been looking into Jewish culture and religion and this helped me to understand the difference in perspective from a Protestant Christian view as well as me learning new stories such as many of the stories within the Wild West of Judges. Those are hardly talked about within my childhood experience of Protestant Christianity. Love this ❤

@leanderbarreto6523 Жыл бұрын

The link at 4:54 is inaccessible

@glennewell2436 6 ай бұрын

Interesting, but I was surprised by her definition of the Hebrew Bible. I was taught, by a Rabbi that the only difference between the Protestant/Anglican OT and a HB is the order of the books; period. The Catholic and Orthodox OTs are however different as they have additional books within the corpus.

@myparceltape1169 Жыл бұрын

Why does the speaker use 'common era' and what is it?

@juliejames6322 Жыл бұрын

It’s a non religious term used often as an alternative to AD.

@helenamcginty4920 Жыл бұрын

@@juliejames6322it is used as AD relates only to Christianity. And Roman Catholicism as it is Latin. Ano Domini. Other cultures have different calendars. BCE before common era and CE Common era are internationally agreed terms which nonetheless use the western Christian year 1 as the start. ....or should that be year 0? I never know.