Title The family in life and in death : the family in ancient Israel : sociological and archaeological perspectives / edited by Patricia Dutcher-Walls

Published New York ; London : T & T Clark International, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 137 pages) : plans Series Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 504 T & T Clark library of biblical studies Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 504 T & T Clark library of biblical studies Contents 880-01 The clarity of double vision : seeing the family in sociological and archaeological perspective / Patricia Dutcher-Walls -- The determination of social identity in the story of Ruth / Victor H. Matthews -- Lying and deceit in families : the duping of Isaac and Tamar / Heather A. McKay -- Average families? : house size variability in the southern Levantine Iron Age / Bruce Routledge -- "Home economics 1407" and the Israelite family and their neighbors : an anthropological/archaeological exploration / John S. Holladay, Jr. -- Exodus 12 in light of ancestral cult practices / Naomi Steinberg -- Death, kinship, and community : afterlife and the [ḥesed] ideal in Israel / Stephen L. Cook -- From womb to tomb : the Israelite family in death as in life / E. Bloch-Smith 880-01/(2/r The clarity of double vision : seeing the family in sociological and archaeological perspective / Patricia Dutcher-Walls -- The determination of social identity in the story of Ruth / Victor H. Matthews -- Lying and deceit in families : the duping of Isaac and Tamar / Heather A. McKay -- Average families? : house size variability in the southern Levantine Iron Age / Bruce Routledge -- "Home economics 1407" and the Israelite family and their neighbors : an anthropological/archaeological exploration / John S. Holladay, Jr. -- Exodus 12 in light of ancestral cult practices / Naomi Steinberg -- Death, kinship, and community : afterlife and the חסד ideal in Israel / Stephen L. Cook -- From womb to tomb : the Israelite family in death as in life / E. Bloch-Smith Summary This volume explores the advantages of seeing a topic from two different but complementary perspectives. All of the papers in the volume were read at two sessions at SBL (2005 and 2006) that were co-sponsored by the Social Sciences and the Hebrew Bible Section of SBL and the American Schools of Oriental Research. The sessions were designed to promote dialogue among scholars by juxtaposing research based in the social sciences and archaeology. Scholars contributed papers from within their own methodological and research perspective, but addressed possible interactions and overlaps that their re Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes English Print version record Subject Families -- Palestine -- History -- Congresses Sociology, Biblical -- Congresses RELIGION -- Biblical Criticism & Interpretation -- Old Testament. RELIGION -- Biblical Commentary -- Old Testament. Families Manners and customs Sociology, Biblical Familie SUBJECT Palestine -- Social life and customs -- To 70 A.D. -- Congresses Subject Middle East -- Palestine Israel Altertum Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings History Form Electronic book Author Dutcher-Walls, Patricia LC no. 2009279206 ISBN 9780567000088 0567000087 1283191903 9781283191906 9786613191908 6613191906

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