In the Jewish Torah, not a single woman is born. Women lived in this era and were lightly mentioned, but they had no rights or voice. Christine de Pizan gave the idea in The Book of the City of Ladies that men were freed from Egypt, while women were evacuated from Egypt but remained in suffering. This radical idea suggests that the freedom of the Israelites was not beneficial to women. Although most believe that Moses led all his people to freedom, women continued to be greatly neglected. The Book of the City of Ladies is considered the first feminist novel written. Pizan writes: “Now, however, it is time for [the women] to be delivered from the hands of the Pharaoh. » (Book 11). She highlights the fact that women were neglected during the exodus from Egypt by exaggerating that they were so mistreated that they were not even freed from slavery. There is very little evidence that women actually left Egypt as they are rarely mentioned in the Exodus. There must have been extreme neglect and mistreatment during the flight from Egypt in order to ignore an entire gender. After the exodus from Egypt, laws and commandments were developed for the new Jewish people. The most important laws passed during this time were the Ten Commandments. These were the only laws spoken by God directly to the people. The last of these laws was: “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor. (Exodus 20:17). This commandment prohibits envy toward the objects of others. That being said, the woman was considered an object, a property. The woman was on the same level as the servant and the maidservant,...... middle of paper ......mily. When Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, he distanced the Jews from Egyptian culture which had more feminism than his own. The women of the Bible were not freed when the Jews left Egypt. This radical concept is overlooked and underestimated. The Judeo-Christian faith has always had a lot of power in the world and its roots are tainted by anti-feminism. Is it possible that the roots of today's patriarchy come from the anti-feminism contained in the Bible? Work Cited: “KJV Dictionary Definition: Seduce.” AV1611.Com King James Bible Page. Np, and Web. May 12, 2014. “Passages treating women as inferior to men. » THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. Np, and Web. May 12, 2014. Pizan, Christine De. The Book of the City of Ladies. New York: Persea, 1982. Print. The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments. Trenton: I. Collins, 1791. Print.