books by Carol L. Meyers

books by Carol L. Meyers

books:

Carol L. Meyers

Haggai, Zechariah 1-8 (Anchor Bible Series, Vol. 25B)

Anchor Bible, 1987

Haggai Zecharaiah 1-8 , volume 25B in the acclaimed Anchor Bible, part of the Scripture known as the Minor Prophets, were written during a critical period in Israel's history, the momentous retum of the Jews from Babylonian exile. Following the conquest of Babylon by the Persian Empire, the Israelites sought to re-establish their ethnic and ...

Zechariah 9-14 (The Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries)
Carol L. Meyers, Eric M. Meyers

Yale University Press, 1998

Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the ...

Houghton Mifflin, 2000

Bible-chicks rule!
This is not as specialized a reference work as you would suspect from the title. The six introductory articles are among the best I have read on the development of the canon, hermeneutics, and the status of biblical scholarship. These run a mere ten or sixteen columns ...

The Contemporary Torah: A Gender-sensitive Adaptation of the JPS Translation

Jewish Publication Society of America, 2006

Gender-Sensitive is Different from Gender-Neutral
The Contemporary Torah is an adaptation with respect to social gender of the NJPS (New Jewish Publication Society) translation (1962, 1985, 1999) of the Torah (first five books of the Bible). Therefore, this translation (as the subtitle states) is gender-sensitive, not ...

Households And Holiness: The Religious Culture Of Israelite Women (Facets)

Carol L. Meyers

Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2005

It's a very small short book with an original premise.
Meyers maintains that many of women's ancient religious practices took place in the home not the temples and have therefore been overlooked by Biblical scholars. In order to get an accurate picture of the religious lives of ancient Hebrew women one must take into ...

Excavations at Ancient Meiron, Upper Galilee, Israel, 1971-72, 1974-75, 1977
Eric M. Meyers, James F. Strange, ...

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987

With photographs, maps, sketches, architectural drawings, and narrative, the authors chronicle the Meiron Excavation Project and the related excavation of ancient Meiron to its broader regional setting in Galilee.