The House of the Mother: The Social Roles of Maternal Kin in Biblical Hebrew Narrative and Poetry

by Cynthia R. Chapman

A novel approach to Israelite kinship, arguing that maternal kinship bonds played key social, economic, and political roles for a son who aspired to inherit his father's household

Upending traditional scholarship on patrilineal genealogy, Cynthia Chapman draws on twenty years of research to uncover an underappreciated yet socially significant kinship unit in the Bible: "the house of the mother." In households where a man had two or...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300197942
• ISBN13: 9780300197945
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"