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Royal Women at Ugarit: Reconceiving the House of the Father book cover

1st Edition

Royal Women at Ugarit Reconceiving the House of the Father

By Christine Neal Thomas Copyright 2025
226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge
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This volume challenges patrimonialism as a political model for the ancient Near East by engaging with letters and legal texts concerning royal women at Late Bronze Age Ugarit, demonstrating women’s pivotal roles in the exercise of power, and then bringing these insights to bear on the Hebrew Bible. The book offers a new vision of how women figure in ancient political systems. Through an... Read more

Introduction; 1. Politics and Patrimonialism; 2. Royal Mothers and Sons in the Ugaritic Letters; 3. Royal Mothers and Sons in Imperial Perspective; 4. The Divorce of the Daughter of the Great Lady; 5. “Her Brother May Not Speak with Her”: Embattled Kingship; 6. Ugarit and Beyond: Points of Contact with Biblical Patrimonialism; Conclusion.

Biography

Christine Neal Thomas is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at Xavier University in joint appointment with Hebrew Union College­–Jewish Institute of Religion. She holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University in Hebrew Bible and Northwest Semitics and an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary. 

"The analysis of all the documentation is very deft and perceptive, and all relevant records are meticulously picked over for clues... This is an important contribution on several fronts." - Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

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