The House of the Mother: The Social Roles of Maternal Kin in Biblical Hebrew Narrative and Poetry by Cynthia R. Chapman

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

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Cynthia R. Chapman

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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...

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