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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458767903321

Autore

Ebeling Jennie R

Titolo

Women's Lives in Biblical Times [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Continuum International Publishing, 2010

ISBN

1-282-86838-1

9786612868382

0-567-42574-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (187 p.)

Disciplina

220.83054

Soggetti

Iron age -- Palestine

Women in the Bible

Women, Prehistoric -- Palestine -- Social conditions

Women, Prehistoric -- Palestine -- Social life and customs

Women, Prehistoric - Social conditions - Palestine

Women, Prehistoric - Social life and customs - Palestine

Iron age - Palestine

Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East

Religion

History & Archaeology

Philosophy & Religion

Christianity

Middle East

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; List of Figures; Introduction; 1 Birth and Background; 2 Childhood; 3 Womanhood; 4 Marriage; 5 Childbirth; 6 Motherhood; 7 Old Age and Death; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume describes the lifecycle events and daily life activities experienced by girls and women in ancient Israel examining recent biblical scholarship and other textual evidence from the ancient Near East and Egypt including archaeological, iconographic and ethnographic



data. From this Ebeling creates a detailed, accessible description of the lives of women living in the central highland villages of Iron Age I (ca. 1200-1000 BCE) Israel . The book opens with an introduction that provides a brief historical survey of Iron Age (ca. 1200-586 BCE) Israel, a discussion of the problems involved