Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible

Introduction

Women make up more than half of a skilled workforce, many of them lawyers, educators and health care, including physicians. In many areas, women are promoted to managerial positions. As part of the government ministers are women, there are women among the members of the Knesset - the Israeli parliament. Women lead the company, financial and commercial companies, cultural projects, run by community organizations and university departments, serve on the officers' positions in the police and the army, women in the justice system works on all levels, including serving as judges in the Supreme Court, there are women in senior positions, including the rank of Ambassador and the State Comptroller. However, only a few manage to take full advantage of these opportunities. Most of women in his professional career did not rise above the average. Thus, in secondary education 76% of teachers - women and among women principals, only 52%. In higher education, this inequality is even more clearly: women constitute 25% of lecturers and only 9% of professors. 60% of state employees - women, but few of them occupy prominent positions.

DiscussionThe role of women in social protest in Israel

Women play a pivotal role in social protest in Israel, but also as their action is often recovered and diverted from its purpose. Benjamin Netanyahu had already faced in 2003, a protest initiated by a woman. He was then Minister of Finance in the Sharon government and decided an austerity plan (already), which was mainly aimed at dismantling the social programs of the welfare state. Thus, Vicky Knafo, single mother living in Mitzpe Ramon, a small "city development" of the Negev, learned in late June that his salary and social benefits were cut in half to only 1.25O shekels (€ 245). Not seeing how it could provide for her children, she decided to "go up to Jerusalem to Bible and explain that it is not possible."Biblical interpretation and the role of women

Historically Biblical exegesis on the subject of male-female relationships has been exclusively hierarchical. Only after the preceding generation a number of exegetes have maintained that the Scriptures teach equality and mutual submission rather than hierarchy between the sexes. Should we consider that the abandonment of an orthodox interpretation means both an abandonment of biblical authority? Many evangelicals fear conclusions different from those who for centuries have remained, thinking that somehow they are attacking the authority of Scripture.

However, if you study the history of exegesis, we note that the abandonment of the traditional interpretation not plant meant the abandonment of biblical authority. This applies, for example, of the Reformation of the sixteenth century and nineteenth-century abolitionist movement. In the case of women, for centuries defended their subordinate status was based on his lower nature. Today, those who defend this subordination is based on the concept of "essential equality and functional differentiation", without necessarily think they are attacking the hermeneutical assumptions they used those advocating the inferiority of women was wrong .

For example, Augustine believed that the woman alone by itself is not the image of God. For Thomas Aquinas, is naturally subject to man, because men pre dominate ...