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Record Nr.

UNISA996308840703316

Autore

Stol Marten

Titolo

Women in the Ancient Near East / / Marten Stol ; translated by Helen and Mervyn Richardson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, [Massachusetts] ; ; Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-5015-0021-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 696 pages) : illustrations, map

Collana

Open Access e-Books

Knowledge Unlatched

Classificazione

NW 8100

Disciplina

305.40935/5

Soggetti

Women - Iraq - Babylonia

Civilization, Ancient

Sex role - History

Electronic books.

Iraq History To 634

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translated from the Dutch.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Map -- 1. Her outward appearance -- 2. Marriage -- 3. The marriage gifts -- 4. The family -- 5. A second wife -- 6. Concubines -- 7. Marriage between equals -- 8. Marriage to a slave -- 9. Divorce -- 10. Adultery -- 11. Rape -- 12. Incest -- 13. The widow -- 14. Levirate marriage -- 15. Women's rights of inheritance -- 16. Women-trafficking under the guise of adoption -- 17. Women robbed of their freedom -- 18. Women and work -- 19. The witch -- 20. Prostitution -- 21. Temple prostitution -- 22. Her physical life -- 23. The court and the harem before 1500 BC -- 24. The court and the harem after 1500 BC -- 25. Priestesses -- 26. Old Babylonian convents -- 27. Married holy women -- 28. Soothsaying -- 29. Women and worship -- 30. The Sacred Marriage -- 31. The Middle Assyrian law-book about women -- 32. The value placed on women -- Bibliography -- Indexes

Sommario/riassunto

Women in the Ancient Near East offers a lucid account of the daily life of women in Mesopotamia from the third millennium BCE until the beginning of the Hellenistic period. The book systematically presents



the lives of women emerging from the available cuneiform material and discusses modern scholarly opinion. Stol’s book is the first full-scale treatment of the history of women in the Ancient Near East.