Leora– Nothing on this one in theDictionary of First Names. According to other internet sources, either a Greek-origin name, or a Hebrew-origin name meaning “my light.” Oneita– According toBehind the Name, the similar nameOneidacomes “from the name of a Native American tribe”...
This paper focuses on privately issued currencies by women in mid-17th century London. These currencies appeared across England as part of a large wave of minting which began during the English Civil War as a result of severe shortages of low value coina
Women do not have to give any dowry to men and men do not have any right to ask or demand dowry from women. The dower given by man to woman during marriage is known as Meher and is a compulsory requirement, but these days Muslims give a small token amount of Meher just for names’...
Sarai and the other women of the household would likely have been responsible for assembling many of the provisions, especially clothing and foodstuffs. There would be containers of salted meat with a “shelf life” of about a month. No doubt grain for grinding, dried fruit, wine or beer, ...
I would like to suggest that the modern feminist midrashic tradition seeks to give names, identities, and fills out the characters of the women in the Hebrew Bible as a way of asserting their own status within Judaism—a traditionally patriarchal and andocentric religion. [6] In giving her a...
Esther is first introduced by her Hebrew name Hadassah: “Mordecai had brought up Hadassah, that is Esther, his cousin, for she had neither father nor mother; the girl was fair and beautiful, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai adopted her as his own daughter” (Esther 2:...
This is not to say that quotidian piety was one-sided or unchanging. On the contrary, the Bible’s women held complicated, sometimes tangled, meanings in Ashkenaz. For example, Hebrew texts from medieval northern Europe routinely tie the biblical Eve to death in childbirth as well as to thre...
Alternative Names Republic of Belarus, Respublika Belarus; before 1991, the country was known as the Belorussian (also spelled Byelorussian) Soviet Socialist Republic. Sometimes called White Russia or alternatively White Ruthenia, especially in relation to the pre-1918 history of the region. Culture...
[correct feminine name], that they be of the same mind in the Lord. And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women [“these women” in correct translations] which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the...
Thus, the intersection between race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexual orientation, i.e.,intersectionality,must become the main unit of feminist analysis. Intersectional feminist analysis draws attention to the role of social structure that shapes individual’s experiences and meanings, gives people...