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

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

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

Cynthia R. Chapman

360 pages • hardcover

1 edition

nonfiction history religion medium-paced
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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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