Paternity, progeny, and perpetuation : creating lives after death in the Hebrew Bible /
"This book offers a fresh perspective on the importance of progeny and perpetuation of the family line in the Hebrew tradition. Stephen Mathias argues that the Hebrew Bible depicts failing to protect the transmission of the family line as both a failure in the social order, a threat to the afte...
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London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney :
T&T Clark, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2020.
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| Sraith: | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ;
696. |
| Rochtain ar líne: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2423902 |
Clár na nÁbhar:
- Cover
- Titel
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Overview
- 2. Outline
- Chapter 1 Reading Power and Culture in Foreign Lands: Anthropology, Bourdieu and Gender
- 1. Anthropological Material and Comparison
- 2. Bourdieu
- 3. Gender
- Chapter 2 How a Law about Sex Became about Anything Else
- 1. Johannes Pedersen
- 2. Raymond Westbrook
- 3. Eryl Davies
- 4. Herbert Chanan Brichto
- 5. New Avenues
- 6. Widow Inheritance and Ghost Marriage: Anthropological Contexts
- Chapter 3 Death, Burial, and Beyond
- 1. Status of the Dead
- 2. Burial
- 3. Veneration and Care of the Dead
- 4. Physically Remembering: Monuments
- 5. Conclusion
- Chapter 4 Names
- 1. What's in a Name?
- 2. Anthropological Perspectives on Names and Naming
- 3. The Act of Naming
- 4. Excursus: God's Name
- 5. Human Names
- 6. The Matrix of Names, Descendants, and the Dead
- 7. Social Memory
- 8. Conclusion
- Chapter 5 Kinship: Reproduction and Sexuality
- 1. Anthropological Approaches to Kinship and Sexuality
- 2. Reproduction in Narrative
- 2.1. Abraham's Promise of Descendants
- 2.2. Abraham's Covenant
- 2.3. Rachel and Leah
- 2.4. The Value of Parenthood
- 3. Regulating Sexuality
- 3.1. Law and Narrative in Deuteronomy
- 3.2. Incest Prohibitions: Regulating the Family
- 4. Conclusion
- Chapter 6 The House of the Father?
- 1. Defining the Family: House of the Father
- 2. Transmitting Property and Family
- 3. Genealogies and Connection
- 4. Regulating the Family: The Fifth Commandment
- 5. Erasing the Family: Cutting Off
- 6. Conclusion
- Chapter 7 Mechanisms of Continuity
- 1. Lot's Daughters: Genesis 19.30-38
- 2. Levirate Law: Context
- 2.1. Deuteronomy 25.5-10
- 2.2. Judah and Tamar
- 2.3. Ruth
- 3. Widow of Tekoa
- 4. Monuments
- 4.1. Absalom's Monument
- 4.2. Isaiah 56.3-5
- 5. Zelophehad's Daughters
- 6. Conclusion
- Conclusion
- 1. Overview
- 2. Property and Progeny
- 3. Gender Reassessed
- 4. Conclusion: No Future?
- Bibliography
- Index of References
- Index of Authors