Who is “Worthy of Honour”? Women as Elders in Late Second Temple Period Literature

Groups and individuals known as “elders” (Greek: presbyteros, gerousia; Hebrew: zaqan) are often found in ancient Jewish texts and inscriptions. Their ubiquity in such texts and inscriptions is accompanied by very little information about their actual function. Generally, this may be because we have...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Joseph Scales
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Sheffield 2022-11-01
Series:Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies
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Online Access:https://jibs.hcommons.org/2022/11/02/4-2-scales-worthy-of-honour/