Prior to their discovery at Qumran near the Dead Sea in the 1940's, our oldest Hebrew scriptures are only one thousand years old. ... However, it was not until 1964 that Margaret Brackenbury Crook, a professor of Biblical Literature, published a study on the status of women in Judaism and Christianity entitled Women and Religion. ... Ultimately the Jews developed their unique religious system and the concept of one God, but it was a gradual process. ... Blaming Eve for causing sin in the world through the wiliness of the serpent has been a long-held belief, but scholars are now assessing ...

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