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The family in life and in death : the family in ancient Israel : sociological and archaeological perspectives
Title
The family in life and in death : the family in ancient Israel : sociological and archaeological perspectives / edited by Patricia Dutcher-Walls.
ISBN
9780567027573
0567027570
Published
New York ; London : T & T Clark International, c2009.
Physical Description
xii, 137 p. : plans ; 25 cm.
Notes
The studies collected in this volume were initially presented at various sessions of the Social Sciences and the Interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures Section of the Society of Biblical Literature. In both 2005 and 2006, this Section sponsored an invited session on the family in ancient Israel in conjunction with the American Schools of Oriental Research. The eighth study was presented at a 2007 session of the same SBL Section. Each piece has been updated and edited for publication.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 14, 2009
Series
Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 504
T & T Clark library of biblical studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
The clarity of double vision: seeing the family in sociological and archaeological perspective / Patricia Dutcher-Walls
The determination of social identity in the story of Ruth / Victor H. Matthews
Lying and deceit in families: the duping of Isaac and Tamar / Heather A. McKay
Average families? House size variability in the southern Levantine iron age / Bruce Routledge
"Home economics 1407" and the Israelite family and their neighbors: an anthropological/archaeological exploration / John S. Holladay, Jr.
Exodus 12 in light of ancestral cult practices / Naomi Steinberg
Death, kinship, and community: afterlife and the ideal in Israel / Stephen L. Cook
From womb to tomb: the Israelite family in death as in life / E. Bloch-Smith.
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