{"id":43842,"date":"2018-11-13T11:22:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T09:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=43842"},"modified":"2022-06-06T17:32:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T14:32:59","slug":"who-were-these-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/who-were-these-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Were These Women?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[555,600],"acf":{"old_id":"43842","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":36147,"related_cahpter":"88","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Some challenging questions about the women and their mirrors...","content":"<p>Who were these women?<\/p>\n<p>Exodus 38:8 tells that the washbasin in the courtyard was made of copper, \u201cfrom the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.\u201d Who were these women? They make one more appearance in the Bible, in a less positive context. The sons of the high priest Eli abused their power in all sorts of ways, according to 1 Samuel 2, including \u201clying with the women who served at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting\u201d (2:22).<\/p>\n<p>These two enigmatic references conceal more than they reveal. What were the women doing? The word <em>tzove\u2019ot<\/em>, which I translated \u201cserved,\u201d is the same word used for all the people who \u201cserved\u201d in the Tabernacle. Were there women among them? Were women in the workplace, even in the Late Bronze Age, too challenging for men, some of whom mistreated them sexually? Why do we not hear of these women elsewhere? And why were their mirrors made into a washbasin? Was this an act of usurpation? Or of generosity?<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, Scripture says nothing but \u201cinterpret me!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>image:\u00a0 <em>Mirror<\/em>, ca. 1478-1390 B.C.E. 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