Daily Archives: January 18, 2011

Wise Women 3: Midwives

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Darrell Pursiful

Medical Practitioners At the end of my previous post I suggested that wise women (in the Ancient Near East generally and in Israel in particular) often performed their services on occasions marked by liminality, the betwixt-and-between of important life passages. … Continue reading →

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