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The house of the mother : the social roles of maternal kin in Biblical Hebrew narrative and poetry /

A novel approach to Israelite kinship, arguing that maternal kinship bonds played key social, economic, and political roles for a son who aspired to inherit his father's household Upending traditional scholarship on patrilineal genealogy, Cynthia Chapman draws on twenty years of research to unc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chapman, Cynthia R., 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]
Colección:Anchor Yale Bible reference library.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: Disrupting the begats (tôlēdôt)
  • 1. House (bayit)
  • 2. The house of the mother (bêt 'ēm)
  • 3. Chamber of her who conceived me (ḥeder hôrātî)
  • 4. My brothers, the sons of my mother ('aḥay bĕnê-'immî)
  • 5. No, son of my womb (ma-bar-bịtnî)
  • 6. Like a brother to me, one who had nursed at my mother's breasts (kĕ'āḥ lî yônēq šĕdê 'immî)
  • 7. The one who opens the womb (peṭer reḥem)
  • 8. The house of the father of his mother (bêt-'ăbî 'immô)
  • 9. Like Rachel and Leah who together built up the house of Israel (kĕrāḥēl ûkĕlē'a 'ăšer bānû šĕtêhem 'et-bêt yiśrā'ēl).