Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Bruce Gardner <b.gardner AT abdn.ac.uk>]

Dear Liz,
            
If you read 2nd Kings, you will see that a female prophet was consulted.
I would not rule out a female contributor to the Pentateuch.

Bruce Gradner.

At 17:22 20/02/01, you wrote:
> Freedman makes a case in his Who Wrote the
> Torah (a case
> adopted without attribution by Bloom) for the J writer to be 
> female.
> My question is how literate were women? How likely is it for there
> to have been women writers? It seems very unlikely to me.
> Liz
> > 
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Bruce Gardner

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