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Sarah the Priestess - The First Matriarch of Genesis (Paperback)
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Sarah the Priestess - The First Matriarch of Genesis (Paperback)
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The only source in which Sarah is mentioned is the Book of Genesis,
which contains very few highly selective and rather enigmatic
stories dealing with her. On the surface, these stories tell us
very little about Sarah, and what they do tell is complicated and
confused by the probability that it represents residue surviving
from two different written sources based on two independent oral
traditions. Nevertheless, the role which Sarah plays, in the
Genesis narratives, apears to be a highly energetic one, a role so
active, in fact, that it repeatedly overshadows that of her
husband.
In a patriarchal environment such as the Canaan of Genesis, the
situation is discordant and problematic. Dr. Teubal suggests that
the difficulty is eliminated, however, if we understand that Sarah
and the other matriarchs mentioned in the narratives acted within
the established, traditional Mesopotamian role of priestess, of a
class of women who retained a highly privileged position vis-a-vis
their husbands.
Dr. Teubal shows that the "Sarah tradition" represents a
nonpatriarchal system struggling for survival in isolation, in the
patriarchal environment of what was for Sarah a foreign society.
She further indicates that the insistence of Sarah and Rebekah that
their sons and heirs marry wives from the old homeland had to do
not so much with preference for endogamy and cousin marriage as
with their intention of ensuring the continuation of their old
"kahina"-tradition against the overwhelming odds represented by
patriarchal Canaan.
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