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UNINA9910962897203321 |
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Autore |
Hezser Catherine <1960-> |
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Titolo |
Jewish slavery in antiquity / / Catherine Hezser |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 |
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ISBN |
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9780191712852 |
9786610758241 |
9780191515668 |
0191515663 |
9781429421966 |
1429421967 |
9781280758249 |
1280758244 |
9780199280865 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Slavery - History |
Slavery - Social aspects - Greece |
Slavery - Social aspects - Rome |
Slavery - Social aspects - Palestine |
Slavery and Judaism |
Enslaved persons - Legal status, laws, etc |
Civilization, Greco-Roman |
Jews - Civilization - To 70 A.D |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-408) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Pt. I. The status of slaves -- Pt. II. Slaves and the family -- Pt. III. Slaves and the economy -- Pt. IV. The symbolic significance of slavery. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Jewish attitudes towards slavery in Hellenistic and Roman times. Against the traditional opinion that after the Babylonian Exile Jews refrained from employing slaves, Catherine Hezser shows that slavery remained a significant phenomenon of ancient Jewish everyday life and generated a discourse |
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