Sexual Hospitality in the Hebrew Bible: Patronymic, Metronymic, Legitimate and Illegitimate Relations

ISBN-13: 9781845531065 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 224 str.

Thalia Gur Klein

Opis

Studies patronymic and metronymic forms of marriage in the ancient world with relation to the Hebrew Bible.

Recenzje

"Sexual hospitality, an institution well documented for many societies, has also left traces in the biblical record. Thalia Gur-Klein assembles these, and offers a compelling interpretation." – Bernhard Lang, University of Paderborn, Germany

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Patriarch Hospitality and Sexual Hospitality 2. Marital and Non-Marital Systems 3. Baal Marriage of Dominion 4. Metronymic Marriage: Remaining with Kin – Counter-patterns of Baal Marriage 5. Intersecting Patterns and Conflicting Imperatives 6. Widow Marriage, Land and Kin Surrogacy 7. Epilogue: Moral Imagination

O autorze

Thalia Gur Klein has an MA in Hebrew and Jewish Studies from the University of Amsterdam and is currently studying for a PhD at the University of Winchester.