In this volume the presupposition is investigated whether women in a polytheistic society had a better position than women in a monotheistic society. To this en

The scribes of ancient Israel are indeed the main figures behind the Hebrew Bible, and this book tells their story for the first time. Drawing comparisons with

The basic questions underlying the study are the following: 1) How do the concepts of drought, death and the sun relate to each other in the Ugaritic religious