You can attend a free, online lecture tonight about women’s roles in both household economy and household religion, “offering some intriguing conclusions about women’s power,” according to Fairfield University, which is sponsoring the talk.
Carol L. Meyers, PhD, a professor of religious studies at Duke University, both a Biblical scholar and field archeologist, will deliver the lecture starting at 7:30 p.m., Monday, March 7.
Dr. Meyer’s lecture, “The Ancient ‘Gender Gap’: The Bible, Archeology, and Israelite Women”, will use archeological evidence from her book Discovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context to reconstruct the lives of everyday Israelites who lived over two thousand years ago.
“The Ancient ‘Gender Gap’: The Bible, Archeology, and Israelite Women” is the Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher Lecture in Judaic Studies at Fairfield University.
About the Presenter
Meyers, PhD, is Mary Grace Wilson Professor Emerita of Religious Studies at Duke University. She has written hundreds of articles, reviews, and books. Her 2013 book, Rediscovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context, is a landmark study of women in ancient Israelite society.
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Carol Meyers
Other books include a commentary on the book of Exodus and several excavation reports (with Eric Meyers). Among her co-edited volumes are Archaeology, Bible, Politics, and the Media (2012), The Bible in the Public Square (2014), The Architecture, Stratigraphy, and Artifacts of the Western Summit of Sepphoris (2018), and The T&T Clark Handbook of Food in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel (2022).
As a field archaeologist, Meyers has been a staff member or co-director of numerous archaeological projects in Israel. She has been a frequent consultant for media productions relating to archaeology and the Bible, including A&E’s Mysteries of the Bible series, DreamWorks’s “Prince of Egypt,” and Nova’s “The Bible’s Buried Secrets.” She has also served on the editorial boards of many reference works and journals and was a senior editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East.
She is currently a trustee of the American Society of Overseas Research the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem, and the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation. She also served as President of the Society of Biblical Literature.
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If You’re Attending …
Reservations are requested for this lecture, which will be delivered as a Zoom webinar at 7:30 p.m., Monday, March 7, 2022.
For more information about this event, contact the Bennett Center for Judaic Studies at bennettcenter@fairfield.edu or call 203-254-4000, ext. 2066.