It is not clear, however, what this meant to the original authors, and most modern commentators divide it into two parts based on subject matter, a " primeval history " ( chapters 1 – 11 ) and a " patriarchal history " ( chapters 12 – 50 ).

The problem lies in finding a way to unite the patriarchal theme of divine promise to the primeval history, with its theme of God's continuing mercy in the face of man's sinful nature.

Mesopotamia, as shown by successive law codes, those of Urukagina, Lipit Ishtar and Hammurabi, across its history became more and more a patriarchal society, one in which the men were far more powerful than the women.

A problem concerning the grandmother hypothesis is that it requires a history of female philopatry and yet present day evidence shows that the majority of hunter-gatherer societies are patriarchal.

Ecofeminism connects the exploitation and domination of women with that of the environment, and argues that there is a connection between women and nature that comes from their shared history of oppression by a patriarchal Western society.

Feminist economics is the critical study of economics including its methodology, epistemology, history and empirical research, attempting to overcome pervasive androcentric ( male and patriarchal ) biases.

To different interpreters, this early Japanese shaman queen can appear as evidence of: communalism ( Marxists ), Jōmon priestess rulers ( Feminist history ), Japanese conquest of Korea ( Akima 1993 ), mongolian conquest of Japan ( Namio Egami's " horserider theory "), the imperial system originating with tandem rule by a female shaman and male monarch ( Mori 1979 ), the " patriarchal revolution " replacing female deities and priestesses with male counterparts ( Ellwood 1990 ), or a shamanic advisor to the federation of Wa chieftains who " must have looked like a ruling queen to Chinese envoys " ( Matsumoto 1983 ).

Those conditions are largely expressed through capitalist and patriarchal relations. Socialist feminists, thus reject the Marxist notion that class and class struggle are the only defining aspects of history and economic development.

One of the first generation of professionally trained historians in the United States, a prolific author and editor of historical works, Albert Bushnell Hart became, as Samuel Eliot Morison described him, " The Grand Old Man " of American history, looking the part with his " patriarchal full beard and flowing moustaches.

Of the five sects listed below, the Yiguan Dao and the Tongshan She legitimize themselves by tracing their patriarchal lines through Huang Dehui to the mythical patriarchs of early Chinese history.

The purpose of a patriarchal blessing is ( 1 ) to identify the tribe of Israel to which all people on earth belong ; ( 2 ) to bless the member with knowledge and the spiritual gifts that may obtained by obedience to Gospel principles ; ( 3 ) to give advice or help to the individual ( often this includes foretelling of possible future events, opportunities, and temptations ).

The four papal or major basilicas were formerly known as " patriarchal basilicas ".

Similarly, the day-to-day governance of patriarchal and major archiepiscopal Eastern Catholic Churches are entrusted to a permanent synod.

They are therefore somewhat more subject than patriarchal or major archiepiscopal Churches to oversight by the pope and the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.

These sui iuris metropolitan churches are generally less populous than patriarchal or major archiepiscopal churches, and are subject to greater oversight by the pope and the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.

Here lies one major interest of Luce Irigaray's: the mother-daughter relationship, which she considers devalued in patriarchal society.

Until 2006, the four major basilicas, together with the basilica of Saint Lawrence outside the Walls were referred to as the five " patriarchal basilicas " of Rome, associated with the five ancient patriarchal sees of Christendom ( see Pentarchy ).

A major archbishop is the metropolitan of a see determined or recognized by the Supreme authority of the Church, who presides over an entire Eastern Church sui iuris that is not distinguished with the patriarchal title.

What is stated in common law concerning patriarchal Churches or patriarchs is understood to be applicable to major archiepiscopal churches or major archbishops, unless the common law expressly provides otherwise or it is evident from the nature of the matter " ( CCEO. 151, 152 ).

It is " a Church sui iuris which is neither patriarchal nor major archiepiscopal nor Metropolitan, and is entrusted to a hierarch who presides over it in accordance with the norm of common law and the particular law established by the Roman Pontiff " ( CCEO.

While the see of Constantinople became dominant throughout the Emperor's lands, the West looked exclusively to the see of Rome, which in the East was seen as that of one of the five patriarchs of the Pentarchy, " the proposed government of universal Christendom by five patriarchal sees under the auspices of a single universal empire.

Although the patriarch now lives in Damascus the monastery still contains the patriarchal throne and tombs of seven patriarchs and metropolitans.

These three figures are referred to collectively as the patriarchs of Judaism, and the period in which they lived is known as the patriarchal age.

The patriarchs of the Eastern Catholic Churches who become cardinals constitute an exception: their own patriarchal see is counted as their title.

Among the duties of the Presiding Patriarch are to preside in council meetings, ordain other patriarchs, and administer patriarchal blessings.

Scholars generally agree that the theme of divine promise unites the patriarchal cycles, but many would dispute the idea that a single theme ( or theology ) runs through Genesis – a theology of the Abraham cycle or the Jacob cycle or the Joseph cycle might be possible, or a theology of the Yahwist or the Priestly source, but not a single theology or overarching theme for all of Genesis.

One solution is to see the patriarchal stories as resulting from God's decision not to remain alienated from mankind: God creates the world and mankind, mankind rebels, and God " elects " ( chooses ) Abraham.

All those after the day of Abraham ( of whatever literal lineage they may be ) who so live as to be worthy of a place in this great patriarchal chain will be welded into Abraham's lineage and shall rise up and bless him as their father.

The stories of Isaac, like other patriarchal stories of Genesis, are generally believed in liberal Western scholarship to have " their origin in folk memories and oral traditions of the early Hebrew pastoralist experience.

" Conservative Western scholarship believes the stories of Isaac, and other patriarchal stories in Genesis, to be factual.

He despised Greek philosophy, and, far from looking at Plato, Aristotle, and other Greek thinkers whom he quotes as forerunners of Christ and the Gospel, he pronounces them the patriarchal forefathers of the heretics ( De anima, iii .).

The novels in this genre tended to feature a benign white patriarchal master and a pure wife, both of whom presided over childlike slaves in a benevolent extended family style plantation.

Parsons had identified the redheaded female love interest of the protagonist with Babalon or the " Scarlet Woman ", whom Crowley had prophesied would help to fulfill the Aeon of Horus and announce to the world the end of the Aeon of Osiris represented by Christianity and other patriarchal religions and social institutions.

Heavily weighted with the fullest ecumenical authority, Nikon's patriarchal staff descended with crushing force upon those with whom he disagreed.

Upon the death of Joannes Scholasticus, whom Justinian had put in the patriarchal chair, the people of Constantinople demanded the return of Eutychius.

The patriarchal lines of these two sects are largely identical down to the thirteenth patriarch Yang Shouyi ( 1796-1828 ), after whom the lines split and ultimately lead to the development of the Yiguan Dao and the Tongshan She as separate sects.

These anti-Tom novels tended to feature a benign white patriarchal master and a pure wife, both of whom presided over childlike slaves in a benevolent extended-family-style plantation.

The elder Smith was given the " keys of the patriarchal Priesthood over the kingdom of God on earth ", the same power said to be held by the Biblical Patriarchs, which included the power to give blessings upon one's posterity.

The gods then seek help elsewhere, and the patriarchal Enlil, their father, God of Nippur, promises to solve the problem if they make him King of the Gods.

A unifying theme of this diverse movement is the femaleness of Deity ( as opposed and contrasted to a patriarchal God ).

In addition to the sense in which God is " Father " to all men because he created the world ( and in that sense " fathered " the world ), the same God is also uniquely the patriarchal law-giver to the chosen people.

Likening his father to Adam, Smith Jr. said, " So shall it be with my father ; he shall be called a prince over his posterity, holding the keys of the patriarchal priesthood over the kingdom of God on earth, even the Church of the Latter Day Saints " ( qtd.

A unifying theme of the movement was that the gender of deity characterizes the political gender-bias of the religion, so a Goddess Worshipping religion is held to be matriarchal and a " God " worshipping religion is held to be patriarchal.

When the office was given to Hyrum, he was given " keys of the patriarchal priesthood over the kingdom of God on earth, even the Church of the Latter Day Saints ".

Yet by representing God ’ s message within his poetry, Baudelaire placed himself in a position of patriarchal authority, similar to that of the God depicted in Christianity.

This " wrathful alien space god from some corporate sin galaxy " is considered to be identical with the God of the Abrahamic and most other patriarchal religions.