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Women's Lives in Biblical Times.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ebeling, Jennie R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Iron age--Palestine.
- Women in the Bible.
- Women, Prehistoric--Palestine--Social conditions.
- Women, Prehistoric--Palestine--Social life and customs.
- Women, Prehistoric--Social conditions--Palestine.
- Women, Prehistoric.
- Women, Prehistoric--Social life and customs--Palestine.
- Iron age.
- Local Subjects:
- Iron age--Palestine.
- Women in the Bible.
- Women, Prehistoric--Palestine--Social conditions.
- Women, Prehistoric--Palestine--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (187 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Continuum International Publishing, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume describes the lifecycle events and daily life activities experienced by girls and women in ancient Israel examining recent biblical scholarship and other textual evidence from the ancient Near East and Egypt including archaeological, iconographic and ethnographic data. From this Ebeling creates a detailed, accessible description of the lives of women living in the central highland villages of Iron Age I (ca. 1200-1000 BCE) Israel . The book opens with an introduction that provides a brief historical survey of Iron Age (ca. 1200-586 BCE) Israel, a discussion of the problems involved
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; List of Figures; Introduction; 1 Birth and Background; 2 Childhood; 3 Womanhood; 4 Marriage; 5 Childbirth; 6 Motherhood; 7 Old Age and Death; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612868382
- 9781282868380
- 1282868381
- 9780567425744
- 0567425746
- OCLC:
- 676696334
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