The Family in Life and in Death: The Family in Ancient Israel - Sociological and Archaeological Perspectives

Zusatztext Mention in Hebrew Studies 50 (2009) Informationen zum Autor Dr. Patricia Dutcher-Walls! Associate Professor of Hebrew Scripture! Vancouver School of Theology; Recent publications: "Queen Mothers and Royal Politics of the Seventh Century B.C.E." in Chaney Festschrift! Sheffield Phoenix! forthcoming; "The Circumscription of the King: Deuteronomy 17:16-17 in Its Ancient Social Context!" JBL 121; Jezebel: Portraits of a Queen ! Liturgical Press! 2004. Zusammenfassung Discusses various aspects of family in ancient Israel, including research on ancestors and the cult of the dead, configurations of family house structures, and family relational interactions. This book explores the advantages of seeing a topic from two different but complementary perspectives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter One: The Clarity of Double Vision: Seeing the Family in Sociological and Archaeological PerspectiveChapter Two: "It's 'All in the Family': Aspects of Identity in Ancient IsraelChapter Three: Lying and Deceit in Families: The Duping of Isaac and TamarChapter Four: Average Families? The Problem of Variability in Iron Age HousesChapter Five: "Home Economics 1407" and the Israelite Family and their Neighbors: An Anthropological/Archaeological ExplorationChapter Six: Food, Family, and Clothing at Passover: Ancestor Worship in Exodus 12:3-13Chapter Seven: Death, Kinship, and Community: Funerary Practices and the hesed Ideal in IsraelChapter Eight: From Womb to Tomb: The Israelite Family in Death as in Life

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• Authors: Patricia Dutcher-Walls, Patricia (EDT) Dutcher-Walls
• Assisted by: Claudia V. Camp (Editor), Patricia Dutcher-Walls (Editor), Dutcher-Walls Patricia (Editor), Andrew Mein (Editor)
• Publisher: T. & T. Clark Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.07.2009
• EAN: 9780567027573
• ISBN: 978-0-567-02757-3
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Te; Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Te; The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Christianity, Ancient / Biblical Israel, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, Old Testaments