Wise Women 1: Mothers in Israel
Wise women played socially important roles in virtually every ancient culture. In Rome, ten Sybils—prophetesses—are mentioned by name in the prologue to the Sybilline Oracles. Oliver Gurney notes at...
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Medical Practitioners At the end of my previous post I suggested that wise women (in the Ancient Near East generally and in Israel in particular) often performed their services on occasions marked by...
View ArticleRabbinic Awesomeness
Web Yeshiva has links to a cornucopia of rabbinic texts (Hebrew and English): Mishnah, Talmud, Midrash, etc. (H/T: James McGrath) Advertisements
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