Woman in the Ancient Hebrew Cult [INSCRIBED]

Peritz, Ismar J. Woman in the Ancient Hebrew Cult [INSCRIBED]. NP: Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, 1898. Reprint. 8vo. iv, pp. 111 – 148, reprinted from Journal of Biblical Literature (1989 Part II). Original paper wrappers bound in paper boards with gray binder’s tape. Ex library copy. Inscribed on front endpaper by the author. In this work, the author demonstrated as long ago that the religion of the Old Testament was not exclusively a male activity. This is a published reprint of the authors Doctoral dissertation. Selected contents include but are not limited to: “Woman in the Arabic Cult,” “Female Divinities,” “Woman as Cultic Official,” “Woman in Assyro-Babylonian, Phoenician, and Other Semitic Cults,” “Old Testament References to Woman’s Relation to Other Semitic Cults,” “Woman as Devotee in Jahveh Cult,” “The Hebrew Woman’s Relation to the Cult of the Dead and the Worship of Ancestors,” and much more. Browning and age wear to wrappers. Book has come loose from the binder’s tape, but all pages are intact and present. Binding in poor, interior in good condition. fair. Softcover. (19726) $50