Published: 2023-12-29

Feminism And New Feminism In The Culture Of Ancient Israel? The Book Of Judith

Aneta Kwaśniak-Gawłowska Logo ORCID

Abstract

The article aims at showing that the role of a woman in both the ancient Israelite community and the biblical text — the Book of Judith — was essential. As Carol Meyers, a feminist scholar, and Waldemar Chrostowski, a Catholic theologian, claim, this role was crucial in social, economic and religious life. Thus, it may be indicated that in both discourses one may find some common ground. While searching for some feminist elements in everyday life of the ancient Israel and the Bible, one should bear in mind the inadequacy of the contemporary feminist terms to describe ancient Israelite women's lives. Nevertheless, it is worth considering whether the definition of feminism would be rational in the ancient Israelite society if it had been known in those times. Taking into account the definition of feminism as a social movement developed by Kazmierz Ślęczka, the author concludes that the discrimination of women did not take place in those times. At the same time, she notices that by using the contemporary language, the heroine of the Book of Judith may represent the assumptions of new feminism as postulated by John Paul the Second.

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Kwaśniak-Gawłowska, Aneta. 2023. “Feminism And New Feminism In The Culture Of Ancient Israel? The Book Of Judith”. Iudaica Russica, no. 2(11) (December):1-25. https://doi.org/10.31261/IR.2023.11.05.

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No. 2(11) (2023)
Published: 2023-12-29


ISSN: 2657-4861
eISSN: 2657-8352
Ikona DOI 10.31261/IR

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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