Vol. 55 No. 4 (2007)
Research Article

Names in the Hebrew Bible

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  • Herbert Barry III,
  • Jared J. Jackson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1179/nam.2007.55.4.372

Published 2007-12-01

Copyright (c) 2007 Maney

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Abstract

Abstract

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.

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