Leonie Archer Explained

Léonie Archer
Birth Date:	25 April 1955
Birth Place:	Crosby, Lancashire
Nationality:	British
Discipline:	Jewish studies, Women's studies
Work Institutions:	Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Alma Mater:	University of Oxford
Known For:	Work on Jewish women in ancient history

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

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

Edited by

• Book: Archer . Léonie J. . 3 . Slavery: And Other Forms of Unfree Labour . History workshop series . London & New York . Routledge . 1988 . 9780203331811 . 52148559 .
• Book: Archer . Léonie J. . 3 . Fischler . Susan . Susan Fischler . Wyke . Maria . Maria Wyke . Women in Ancient Societies: an illusion of the night . New York . Routledge . 1994 . 9780415908818 . 28677450 .

Chapters

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

Journal articles

• Archer . Léonie J. . 3 . The Virgin and the Harlot in the Writings of Formative Judaism . History Workshop Journal . Oxford . Oxford University Press . 24 . 1 . 1987 . 228 .

Notes and References

1. http://www.oxfordenergy.org/index.php Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
2. 10.1093/hwj/24.1.228 . Notes on Contributors . History Workshop Journal . 1987 . 24 . 228 .
3. Howe . R. . Book Reviews: Prepared to Revise the Asb? . The Expository Times . 103 . 1991 . 1 . 30–31. 10.1177/001452469110300128 . 170119548 .
4. Web site: Oxford Institute for Energy Studies . 27 October 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091015223400/http://www.oxfordenergy.org/pdfs/GW8.pdf . 15 October 2009 . dead .
5. Web site: Oxford Institute for Energy Studies . 27 October 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091015222908/http://www.oxfordenergy.org/pdfs/EV18.pdf . 15 October 2009 . dead .
6. Web site: Oxford Institute for Energy Studies . 27 October 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20051108042924/http://www.oxfordenergy.org/pdfs/EV22.pdf . 8 November 2005 . dead .