Addresses central questions regarding the ways that religion regards the role of women.

A team of international contributors give new insights into the key issues surrounding women's health, social anthropology and midwifery. They examine bodies, l

Because gender is an essential component of societies of all times and places, it is no surprise that every prophetic expression in the ancient social world was

Whereas many books in this field deal with individual aspects or texts of the study of family laws, Leviticus: The Priestly Laws and Prohibitions from the Persp

This volume is the first in The Bible and Women series. It presents a history of the reception of the Bible as embedded in Western cultural history with a speci