The Jewish Family in Antiquity /

This volume consists of papers (or the offspring of papers) that were delivered by the Hellenistic Judaism section of the 1990 and 1991 annual meetings of the Society for Biblical Literature. In recognition of the fact that so little work had been down on the subject, presenters were not asked to fo...

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Corporate Authors: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (sponsoring body.), National Endowment for the Humanities (sponsoring body.)
Other Authors: Satlow, Michael L. (editorial director.), Cohen, Shaye J. D. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Providence : Brown Judaic Studies, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Shaye J.D. Cohen Part one. Assumptions and problems
  • Family/ies in antiquity: evidence from Tannaitic literature and Roman Galilean architecture / Miriam Peskowitz Part two. Parents, children, and slaves
  • Parents and children in the Jewish family of antiquity / O. Larry Yarbrough
  • Parents and children: a philonic perspective / Adele Reinhartz
  • Jewish mothers and daughters in the Greco-Roman world / Ross S. Kramer
  • Slavery and the ancient Jewish family / Dale B. Martin Part three. Rabbinic law
  • Reconsidering the Rabbinic ketubah payment Part four. By way of comparison: some Greek families
  • Some Greek families: production and reproduction.