The House of the Mother : The Social Roles of Maternal Kin in Biblical Hebrew Narrative and Poetry Hardback
by Cynthia R. Chapman
Part of the The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library series
Hardback
Description
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.
Information
-
Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:360 pages, 12 b-w illus.
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:03/01/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9780300197945
Information
-
Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:360 pages, 12 b-w illus.
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:03/01/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9780300197945
