The House of the Mother: The Social Roles of Maternal Kin in Biblical Hebrew Narrative and Poetry - Couverture rigide

Chapman, Cynthia R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0300197942 ISBN 13 : 9780300197945

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2017

Synopsis

A novel approach to Israelite kinship, arguing that maternal kinship bonds played key social, economic, and political roles for a son who aspired to inherit his father's household

Upending traditional scholarship on patrilineal genealogy, Cynthia Chapman draws on twenty years of research to uncover an underappreciated yet socially significant kinship unit in the Bible: "the house of the mother." In households where a man had two or more wives, siblings born to the same mother worked to promote and protect one another's interests. Revealing the hierarchies of the maternal houses and political divisions within the national house of Israel, this book provides us with a nuanced understanding of domestic and political life in ancient Israel.

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À propos de l'auteur

Cynthia R. Chapman is the Adelia A.G. Johnston and Harry Thomas Frank Professor of Biblical Studies at Oberlin College. She is the author of The Gendered Language of Warfare in the Israelite-Assyrian Encounter.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0300197942
• ISBN 13: 9780300197945
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 360
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