The Life of the People in Biblical TimesJewish Publication Society of America, 1929 - 236 pages |
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Page 73
... women to free- men is contemplated as a possibility and that such a marriage makes the woman a wife , not a concubine , the distinction is hard to make out , unless we are dealing with the ideas of different ages . Otherwise we might ...
... women to free- men is contemplated as a possibility and that such a marriage makes the woman a wife , not a concubine , the distinction is hard to make out , unless we are dealing with the ideas of different ages . Otherwise we might ...
Page 128
... women was very marked , it has often resolved itself into the fact that men frequently went unclad or partly clad and women almost never did so . The only satisfactory way of visualizing Jewish dress to ourselves is to look at pictures ...
... women was very marked , it has often resolved itself into the fact that men frequently went unclad or partly clad and women almost never did so . The only satisfactory way of visualizing Jewish dress to ourselves is to look at pictures ...
Page 184
... woman , of whom the highest praise was that " her feet abide in the house . " And staying there , she could scarcely do ... women , and would have seemed excessive for men . We may be sure that many a Jewish woman found in the homely ...
... woman , of whom the highest praise was that " her feet abide in the house . " And staying there , she could scarcely do ... women , and would have seemed excessive for men . We may be sure that many a Jewish woman found in the homely ...
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