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Jewish women in Greco-Roman Palestine : an inquiry into image and status / Tal Ilan.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Texte und Studien zum antiken JudentumPublisher: Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2020Description: 1 online resource (285 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 3161587227
  • 9783161587825
  • 3161587820
  • 9783161587221
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Jewish Women in Greco-Roman Palestine : An Inquiry into Image and StatusDDC classification:
  • 305.48/8924033 20
LOC classification:
  • BM729.W6 I43 2020
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Cover -- Titel -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- The History of Research -- Chronology -- Geography -- The Sources -- The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha -- Josephus -- Josephus' Lost Sources -- 1. The Tobiad History -- 2. Nicolaus of Damascus -- 3. Josephus' Sources for the House of Agrippa -- 4. The Source for the Conversion of the Royal House of Adiabene -- The New Testament -- Rabbinic Literature -- 1. Tannaitic Literature -- 2. Baraitot -- 3. Amoraic Literature -- 4. Midrashim -- The Dead Sea Scrolls -- Funerary Inscriptions -- Papyri and Ostraca from the Judaean Desert
The Structure of this Work -- Chapter 1: Daughters -- The Birth of a Daughter -- Relations between Father and Daughter -- The Daughter as Only Child -- Naming a Daughter -- Identifying a Daughter by her Father -- Chapter 2: Marriage -- 1. The Virtuous Wife -- 2. The Bad Wife -- Marriage and Spinsterhood: Two Different Paths -- The Age of Marriage -- Social Connections and Marriage -- 1. Priests -- 2. Marriage within the Family -- 3. Choosing a Husband -- 4. Refusal -- Polygamy -- Economic and Legal Arrangements -- 1. Betrothal (qiddushin) -- 2. The Marriage Contract (ketubbah)
The Marriage Ceremony -- Chapter 3: A Woman's Biology -- Virginity -- 1. Loss of Economic Significance -- 2. Legal Significance -- The Menstruant (niddah) -- "Be Fruitful and Multiply" -- Sexual Relations -- Pregnancy and Childbirth -- 1. Infertility -- 2. Miscarriage -- 3. Premature Birth -- 4. Childbirth -- 5. Nursing -- Chapter 4: Preserving a Woman's Chastity -- Talking with a Woman -- Looking at a Woman -- The Woman at Home -- Head-Covering -- Archaeological Evidence -- Chapter 5: Crises in Married Life and the Breakdown of Marriage -- Adultery -- The Suspected Adultress (sotah) -- Divorce
Widowhood -- Levirate Marriage (yibbum) -- Chapter 6: Women and the Legal System -- Punishments and Judgments -- Women as Witnesses -- Inheritance -- 1. Bequeathing Property -- 2. Guardianship -- 3. Succession to the Throne -- Chapter 7: Women in Public -- Commandments -- Occupations and Professions -- Study of Torah -- 1. Beruriah -- 2. Matrona -- Chapter 8: Other Women -- Maidservants -- Proselytes -- Prostitutes -- Witches -- Conclusions -- 1. The Heterogeneity of Jewish Society in Palestine -- 2. Social Class and Tannaitic Literature -- Bibliography -- Indexes

Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed Nov 23rd, 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover -- Titel -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- The History of Research -- Chronology -- Geography -- The Sources -- The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha -- Josephus -- Josephus' Lost Sources -- 1. The Tobiad History -- 2. Nicolaus of Damascus -- 3. Josephus' Sources for the House of Agrippa -- 4. The Source for the Conversion of the Royal House of Adiabene -- The New Testament -- Rabbinic Literature -- 1. Tannaitic Literature -- 2. Baraitot -- 3. Amoraic Literature -- 4. Midrashim -- The Dead Sea Scrolls -- Funerary Inscriptions -- Papyri and Ostraca from the Judaean Desert

The Structure of this Work -- Chapter 1: Daughters -- The Birth of a Daughter -- Relations between Father and Daughter -- The Daughter as Only Child -- Naming a Daughter -- Identifying a Daughter by her Father -- Chapter 2: Marriage -- 1. The Virtuous Wife -- 2. The Bad Wife -- Marriage and Spinsterhood: Two Different Paths -- The Age of Marriage -- Social Connections and Marriage -- 1. Priests -- 2. Marriage within the Family -- 3. Choosing a Husband -- 4. Refusal -- Polygamy -- Economic and Legal Arrangements -- 1. Betrothal (qiddushin) -- 2. The Marriage Contract (ketubbah)

The Marriage Ceremony -- Chapter 3: A Woman's Biology -- Virginity -- 1. Loss of Economic Significance -- 2. Legal Significance -- The Menstruant (niddah) -- "Be Fruitful and Multiply" -- Sexual Relations -- Pregnancy and Childbirth -- 1. Infertility -- 2. Miscarriage -- 3. Premature Birth -- 4. Childbirth -- 5. Nursing -- Chapter 4: Preserving a Woman's Chastity -- Talking with a Woman -- Looking at a Woman -- The Woman at Home -- Head-Covering -- Archaeological Evidence -- Chapter 5: Crises in Married Life and the Breakdown of Marriage -- Adultery -- The Suspected Adultress (sotah) -- Divorce

Widowhood -- Levirate Marriage (yibbum) -- Chapter 6: Women and the Legal System -- Punishments and Judgments -- Women as Witnesses -- Inheritance -- 1. Bequeathing Property -- 2. Guardianship -- 3. Succession to the Throne -- Chapter 7: Women in Public -- Commandments -- Occupations and Professions -- Study of Torah -- 1. Beruriah -- 2. Matrona -- Chapter 8: Other Women -- Maidservants -- Proselytes -- Prostitutes -- Witches -- Conclusions -- 1. The Heterogeneity of Jewish Society in Palestine -- 2. Social Class and Tannaitic Literature -- Bibliography -- Indexes

Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed Nov 23rd, 2022).