1st Edition

Sexual Hospitality in the Hebrew Bible Patronymic, Metronymic, Legitimate and Illegitimate Relations

By Thalia Gur-Klein Copyright 2013
334 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

A woman's life in the ancient world was constrained by her social and economic status. As a daughter she was firmly under the aegis of her father and brothers, who would later allocate the woman to another man as his wife. The power of fathers and husbands extended to using their wives and daughters as sexual gifts to gain favour. Yet, alongside this, woman had certain socio-economic rights –... Read more

Introduction 1. Patriarch Hospitality and Sexual Hospitality 2. Marital and Non-Marital Systems 3. Baal Marriage of Dominion 4. Metronymic Marriage: Remaining with Kin – Counter-patterns of Baal Marriage 5. Intersecting Patterns and Conflicting Imperatives 6. Widow Marriage, Land and Kin Surrogacy 7. Epilogue: Moral Imagination

Biography

Thalia Gur Klein has an MA in Hebrew and Jewish Studies from the University of Amsterdam and is currently studying for a PhD at the University of Winchester.

"Sexual hospitality, an institution well documented for many societies, has also left traces in the biblical record. Thalia Gur-Klein assembles these, and offers a compelling interpretation." – Bernhard Lang, University of Paderborn, Germany