Status answers the question “who?” = position in a social system.

  Ascribed: sex, gender
                age
                social rank

  Achieved: marriage
                 occuptation.

 Roles: answers the question “what one is expected to do on the basis of status?”

STATUS:

ascribed by gender: contentious women/rival wives.

 Prov. 21:9, 19
 Prov 25:24
 Prov 27:15-16
 Compare Sirach 25:1

 Consider the power of women:

 -play one male against another: Rom 11:11, 13

 -destroy kings/men: Prov 31:3; see Esther; Judith 10,  Judges 14, 16 - Samson

ascribed by age:

 Sirach 32:3-6
 Sirach 32:7-9
          Jer 1:4-12
          Job 32:6-10

ascribed by social rank:

 Sirach 38:1-15
 Sirach 38:24–30:11

achieved:

 Marriage: patriarchs (recall the Family video and handout)

 occupation: study of the Torah (Recall Sir 38 above)
  Consider Mark 6 and Luke 4 (Jesus, carpenter/carpenter’s son

ROLES - defined by kinship

 Judges 11:29-40 Jephthah and daughter
 1 Sam 1:1–2:11 Hanna

 Prov 31:10-31 Ideal wife (and Kypseli)