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Dr Karen Bauer, Research Associate in the 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍ic Studies Unit at the 鸟大大影院, presented at the Seventh Biennial Conference on held at . Dr Bauer鈥檚 paper, entitled Women鈥檚 Testimony and the Re-Interpretability of the 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍, investigated a specific verse of the 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍, 2:282. According to Dr Bauer, this verse seems, at first glance, to be an unequivocal statement that two women should testify in the place of one man, and therefore that women鈥檚 testimony is not equal to that of men.

Her paper explored the discourse on women鈥檚 testimony in classical and modern commentaries and drew on interviews conducted by Dr Bauer in Iran and in Syria, and the texts of modern Egyptian thinkers, to speak about the modern discourse on whether women鈥檚 testimony equals that of men.

Dr Bauer explained that the central question for modern interpreters is whether the common interpretation of this verse had to do with the social circumstances at the time of the advent of the 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍, or something intrinsic to women鈥檚 nature that makes them 鈥榰nable鈥 to testify in certain circumstances.

Those interpreters who take the latter stance maintain that women鈥檚 testimony is unequal to men鈥檚 in certain circumstances, but those advocating the former stance, that the verse was revealed due to the social circumstances at the time of the 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍鈥檚 advent, are open to reinterpreting the verse in the light of today鈥檚 societal norms. The paper touched on two of the central questions for today鈥檚 interpreters: the extent to which culture dictates interpretation and how one determines the limits of reinterpretation.

The conference series has a broad and interdisciplinary scope, bringing together papers representing a diverse range of areas and approaches within 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍ic studies.

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