Judaism enters the world as a protest against ... The story of Korach explains why. Where there is hierarchy, there will be competition as to who is the alpha male. Is hierarchy an inevitable ...

Judaism was shaped through three brief periods ... After all, God emphasized after the flood that hierarchy was to be part of the new world order. But when a coalition of five kings rebelled ...

The ostracon is now the third strand of evidence suggesting women had power in the Jewish temple hierarchy at Elephantine, Holm notes; the others are a papyrus text about a female “servant of ...