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

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 women in the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vitale, Joanna Katherine
Other Authors: Gillingham, Susan
Published: University of Oxford 2015
Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.730510