Ruether On The Patterns Of Domination

In chapter seven Ruether writes about that constructing the systems of domination. The “major elements in social structure and culture that both shaped and reflected the system of patriarchal domination that the West inherits from its past” (Ruether 173). There has been research done on the patterns of domination and it justification in the Mesopotamian ,Hebrew, and Greek worlds during this era. There was primary emergence and consolidation of patriarchal, classist and militarist societies and other cultures. As Ruther has written that “there is no suggestion here that either the West or Christian tradition is uniquely responsible for these evils” (Ruether 173). This paper will be focusing on how the scientific revolution influences our modern

The only table that was keeped was account records, laws, and legends; theis records held the patrilineal family, slavery, and aristocratic priesthood, and warrior nobility. In the 4000 B.C.E the Babylonian has dates that state the beginnings of slavery. “ If this is so ,then the patriarchal reordering of the family, its definition of land as patrilineal property, the scribal religious elites who controlled writing recorders, that development of war,and the warrior nobility probable all emerged as part of an interconnected process” (Ruether 174). Many of the slaves came from groups conquered in war and poor people that had fallen into debt; most people solded their children, wives, and even themselves to pay their debts off. There was an early Sumerian story of the creation of humans was a time when the gods and goddesses had to do their own work. The solution the gods came up with was to create human beings as slaves so that the gods were free from physical labor. In this time period all people were looked at different my the skin color and by what families they came from. Having slaves in this time period has carried on through many generations, and is now fixed because everyone should be treated equally and with

Women in Israel status varies from the records that were made thousand years by divers political and economic systems. Israel was exhibits resistance to the hierarchy of the urban agricultural then came together as the assembly of Israel. The system in Israel females are rigorously marginalized. Women can not study the law and have limited areas of observance; they also can not own land, testify or make contracts. Many women in this time were said that they were created as a secondary being, adjunct to their husband. Classical Athens had strong goddess and told stories about female power, but it also exhibits “more vehement misogyny, women are forbidden all citizen roles and made permanent minors, unable to act as autonomous parties to any civic transaction, economic or political (Ruether 181). Both of their story about women are connected with different creation stories. The women from Athens were connected with the creation story of Pandora’s box, women from Israel were connected with the creation story Adam and Eve. Both of these stories show how women are overlooked, but at the same time women are blamed for all the bad things that happen in