Open AccessNames in the Hebrew Bible
Author(s) -
Herbert Barry,
Jared J. Jackson
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
names
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.2
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1756-2279
pISSN - 0027-7738
DOI - 10.1179/nam.2007.55.4.372
Subject(s) - sister , daughter , wife , genealogy , hebrew , hebrew bible , history , literature , classics , art , philosophy , biblical studies , theology , sociology , anthropology , biology , evolutionary biology
The Hebrew Bible contains more than a thousand names given to more than two thousand individuals, less than 10% of whom are females. The majority of women are identified merely as the wife, concubine, daughter, mother, or sister of a man. The twelve patrilineal tribes and genealogies of fathers and sons contributed to the preponderance of males. Ten names are ambisexual, shared by both males and females. Two books, 1 Chronicles and Genesis, contain the largest numbers of people with ambisexual names.