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Footnotes
Hirah, sent by Judah to find the woman he had intercourse with, uses the term kedashah (holy woman) in referring to Tamar. The narrator refers to Tamar as a zonah (prostitute), reflecting his own assessment.
Endnotes
See Ilana Pardes, “Genesis 3, ” in A. Brenner, ed., A Feminist Companion to Genesis (Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993).
See Savina J. Teubal, Sarah the Priestess: The First Matriarch of Genesis (Athens, OH: Swallow Press/Ohio Univ. Press, 1984), p. 60.
See Susan Ackerman, “The Queen Mother and the Cult of Ancient Israel,” in the Journal of Biblical Literature (Fall 1993), pp. 385ff.