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The House of the Mother: The Social Roles of Maternal Kin in Biblical Hebrew Narrative and Poetry
Cynthia R. Chapman
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Hardback. 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 Series: The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library. Num Pages: 360 pages, 12 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAL; 3D; HBJF1; HBLA; HRCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 243 x 28. Weight in Grams: 642.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300197945
SKU
V9780300197945
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About Cynthia R. Chapman
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.
Reviews for The House of the Mother: The Social Roles of Maternal Kin in Biblical Hebrew Narrative and Poetry
Co-winner of the 2017 Biblical Archaeology Society Publication Award in the Best Book Relating to the Hebrew Bible category. In this extraordinarily important study, Cynthia Chapman sheds light on numerous enigmatic biblical passages and has made a major contribution to our understanding of Israel's social world. Chapman is a pioneer in the study of women's kinship. -Robert R. ... Read more