Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel
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Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel  -     By: Wilda C. Gafney

Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel

Fortress Press / 2008 / Paperback

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Miriam, Deborah, Huldah, the "daughters who prophesy" in Ezekiel and Joel . . . throughout Scripture, formative moments are marked by female prophets giving powerful voice to Yahwistic faith. In this probing study, Gafney examines historic prophetesses and their messages in Israel and surrounding ancient Near Eastern cultures; as well as in early and rabbinic Judaism. 224 pages, softcover from Fortress.

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Title: Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel
By: Wilda C. Gafney
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 224
Vendor: Fortress Press
Publication Date: 2008
Dimensions: 8.5 X 5.5 (inches)
Weight: 10 ounces
ISBN: 080066258X
ISBN-13: 9780800662585
Stock No: WW662585

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There are untold numbers of female prophets hiding in the masculine grammar and androcentric focus of the Hebrew scriptures. There are women-prophets in the communities around biblical Israel, existing for hundreds of years and even a thousand years before the Israelite and Judean prophets recorded their messages. The rabbinic and Christian fathers analyzed and found more women in the scriptures who function as prophets than the biblical authors identify. All of these female prophets have an intimate connection with the God of Israel; they express that connection by singing, dancing, drumming, speaking with and for God, waging war, performing miracles, exercising statecraft, and giving birth. Each of them is a daughter of Miriam, the mother of all women-prophets.

Women prophets gave powerful voice to Yahwist faith at theformative moments in ancient Israel's development, and wereexpected in biblical visions of the future. Now they come to theforeground as Wilda C. Gafney explores prophetic practices inancient Israel, different models for women's sacred roles in the NearEastern environment, and changing understandings of women'sleadership in early and rabbinic Judaism as well.

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Wilda C. Gafney is Associate Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia.

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