Women first?: on the legacy of primitive communism

Title: Women first?: on the legacy of primitive communism
Creator: Boer, Roland
Relation: Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Vol. 30, Issue 1, p. 3-28
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309089205057775
Publisher: Sage Publications
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2005
Description: One of the most important contributions to the study of the Hebrew Bible in the last 25 years is the argument for a mode of production unique to early Israel. Variously called the communitarian (Norman Gottwald), household (Carol Meyers), domestic (David Jobling and Ronald Simkins), or familial (Gail Yee), such a mode of production urges a firm basis in the study of political economics or Marxism. However, another feature of these arguments (apart from Simkins) is that such a mode of production was at least comparatively better for women. The concern of this article is to trace such a motif back through the work of biblical scholars to Marshall Sahlins, the anthropologist who first proposed the domestic mode of production, and then to the crucial work of Friedrich Engels, Lewis Henry Morgan, and J.J. Bachofen. What this article finds is that primitive communism has a more durable legacy in biblical studies than may at first appear.
Subject: communitarian; household; domestic; familial
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/803739
Identifier: uon:6488
Identifier: ISSN:0309-0892
Language: eng
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