The house of the mother : the social roles of maternal kin in Biblical Hebrew narrative and poetry /
Chapman, Cynthia R.,1964-author.
Upending traditional scholarship on patrilineal genealogy, Cynthia Chapman draws on twenty years of research to uncover an underappreciated yet socially significant kinship unit in the Bible: "the house of the mother." In households where a man had two or more wives, siblings born to the same mother worked to promote and protect one another's interests. Revealing the hierarchies of the maternal houses and political divisions within the national house of Israel, this book provides us with a nuanced understanding of domestic and political life in ancient Israel.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction: Disrupting the begats (tôlēdôt) -- House (bayit) -- The house of the mother (bêt 'ēm) -- Chamber of her who conceived me (ḥeder hôrātî) -- My brohters, the sons of my mother ('aḥay bĕnê-'immî) -- No, son of my womb (ma-bar-bịtnî) -- Like a brother to me, one who had nursed at my mother's breasts (kĕ'āḥ lî yônēq šĕdê 'immî) -- The one who opens the womb (peṭer reḥem) -- The house of the father of his mother (bêt-'ăbî 'immô) -- Like Rachel and Leah who together built up the house of Israel (kĕrāḥēl ûkĕlē'a 'ăšer bānû šĕtêhem 'et-bêt yiśrā'ēl).
Upending traditional scholarship on patrilineal genealogy, Cynthia Chapman draws on twenty years of research to uncover an underappreciated yet socially significant kinship unit in the Bible: "the house of the mother." In households where a man had two or more wives, siblings born to the same mother worked to promote and protect one another's interests. Revealing the hierarchies of the maternal houses and political divisions within the national house of Israel, this book provides us with a nuanced understanding of domestic and political life in ancient Israel.
Bible.
Bible.
Mothers in the Bible.
Matriarchs (Bible)
Women in the Bible.
Matriarchs (Bible)
Mothers in the Bible.
Women in the Bible.