A comparative analysis of depictions of female beauty in the Hebrew Bible and the Jewish Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha

<p>This thesis compares the motif of female beauty in the Hebrew Bible and in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, contending that although these sets of texts share affinities, overall there is a marked divergence between them. Scholars have argued that the condemnatory characterisations of wome...