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Paperback The Women of Israel: Volume 2: Or, Characters and Sketches from the Holy Scriptures, and Jewish History Book

ISBN: 1108019382

ISBN13: 9781108019385

The Women of Israel: Volume 2: Or, Characters and Sketches from the Holy Scriptures, and Jewish History

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Grace Aguilar (1818-1847), a prolific nineteenth-century novelist and Jewish historian of Sephardic descent, was better known for her works of fiction, but in this 1845 publication she addresses Jewish history from a female perspective. These two volumes consist of a series of biographical essays on Old Testament, Talmudic and modern Jewish women. Aguilar identifies a need for more female biography of scripture, postulating a continuity between the biblical matriarchs and the Jewish women of her generation. Addressing a female readership, Aguilar writes in a didactic and highly evangelical tone characteristic of the period, using her historical discussion to argue for the emancipation of Jews, particularly Jewish women, who should also have full access to all Jewish religious texts. This second volume focuses on Aguilar's latter four periods of history. For more information on this author, see http: //orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=aguigr

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