6 options
Women in the Ancient Near East / Marten Stol ; translated by Helen and Mervyn Richardson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stol, Marten, author.
- Series:
- Open Access e-Books
- Knowledge Unlatched
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Iraq--Babylonia.
- Women.
- Civilization, Ancient.
- Sex role--History.
- Sex role.
- Iraq--History--To 634.
- Iraq.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 696 pages) : illustrations, map.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, [Massachusetts] ; Berlin, [Germany] : De Gruyter, 2016.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Translated from the Dutch.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified individually in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781501500213
- 150150021X
- OCLC:
- 957696695
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.