Leonie Archer

Léonie Jane Archer (born 25 April 1955 in Crosby, Lancashire) is an English author and a former Research Fellow in Environmental Studies at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.^[1]

Archer graduated from the University of Oxford in 1981, with ancient history honours, and became a Fellow in Jewish Studies of the Graeco-Roman Period, Oxford Centre for Hebrew Studies, and Junior Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford.^[2] Besides publishing on environmental issues, her best known works involve Jewish women in ancient history, and the history of slavery. Her Price is Beyond Rubies: the Jewish Woman in Graeco-Roman Palestine was one of the first comprehensive studies on Jewish women in antiquity.^[3]

Works[]

Books[]

• Archer, Léonie J. (1987). Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies: a Bibliography of Publications, 1972-1986. Oxford: Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies. OCLC 20491505.
• ——— (1989). Her Price is Beyond Rubies: the Jewish Woman in Graeco-Roman Palestine. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press. ISBN 1-85075-079-3. OCLC 20130793.
• ——— (1990). The Gulf Crisis: Implications for the Environment. Oxford: Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. ISBN 0-948061-48-0. ^[4]
• ——— (1992). Exhausting Our Options: Fuel Efficient Cars and the Environment. Oxford: Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. ISBN 0-948061-72-3.
• ——— (1993). Aircraft Emissions and the Environment. Oxford: Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. ISBN 0-948061-79-0.
• ——— (1995). Environmentalists Vs. Oil Producers: Clearing Misunderstanding for Constructive Action. Oxford: Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. ISBN 0-948061-85-5. ^[5]
• ——— (1996). Oil Tankers & Pollution Laws. Oxford: Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. ISBN 0-948061-91-X. ^[6]

Edited by[]

• ———, ed. (1988). Slavery: And Other Forms of Unfree Labour. History workshop series. London & New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780203331811. OCLC 52148559.
• ———; ; Wyke, Maria, eds. (1994). Women in Ancient Societies: an illusion of the night. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415908818. OCLC 28677450.

Chapters[]

• ——— (1983). "The Role of Jewish Women in the Religion, Ritual and Cult of Graeco-Roman Palestine". In Cameron, Averil; Kuhrt, Amélie (eds.). Images of Women in Antiquity. Detroit, IL: Wayne State University Press. pp. 273–288. ISBN 0-8143-1762-6.
• ——— (1990). "Bound by Blood: Circumcision and Menstrual Taboo in Post-Exilic Judaism". In Soskice, Janet Martin (ed.). After Eve: Women, Theology and the Christian Tradition. London: Marshall Pickering. ISBN 0-551-02039-3.
• ——— (1990). "Gender and Ritual in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition". In (ed.). Through the Devil's Gateway: Women, Religion and Taboo. London: SPCK Channel Four Television. ISBN 0-281-04467-8.
• ——— (1994). "Notions of community and the exclusion of the female in Jewish history and historiography". In ———; ; Wyke, Maria (eds.). Women in Ancient Societies: an illusion of the night. New York: Routledge. pp. 53–69. ISBN 9780415908818. OCLC 28677450.

Journal articles[]

• ——— (1987). "The Virgin and the Harlot in the Writings of Formative Judaism". History Workshop Journal. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 24 (1): 228.

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