The house of the mother : the social roles of maternal kin in Biblical Hebrew narrative and poetry / Cynthia R. Chapman

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Editeur / Publisher : New Haven (Conn.) : Yale University Press , cop. 2016

Type : Livre / Book

Langue / Language : anglais / English

ISBN : 978-0-300-19794-5

ISBN : 0-300-19794-2

EAN : 9780300197945

Bible -- A.T. -- Analyse du discours narratif

Mères -- Dans la Bible

Collection : Anchor Bible reference library / New York : Doubleday , 1988

Résumé / Abstract : Le rabat de jaquette porte : "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."