Families and family relations
Subtitle: as represented in early Judaisms and early Christianities : texts and fictions ; papers read at a NOSTER Colloqium in Amsterdam, June 9-11, 1998
By: edited by Jan Willem van Henten & Athalya Brenner.
Contributors: Henten, J. W. van.; Brenner, Athalya.
Series: Studies in theology and religion -- v. 2
Publisher: Deo
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Leiderdorp
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Family -- Middle East -- History; Jewish families -- History; Jews -- Social life and customs -- To 70 A.D; Family -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Early church, ca. 30-600
Notes: Internat. conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-241), index and appendix.
Table of contents: title: The metaphor of marriage in early Judaism / Michael Satlow; title: Why would a man want to be anyone's wife? : a response to Michael Satlow / Judith Frishman; title: "We have a little sister" : aspects of the brother-sister relationship in ancient Israel / Ingo Kottsieper; title: The role of the father : a response to Ingo Kottsieper / Arie van der Kooij; title: Hebrew names, personal names, family names and nicknames of Jews in the Second Temple period / Rachel Hachlili; title: Source, material and percentages : a response to Hachlili / Gerard Mussies; title: Domesticity and the spindle / Miram Peskowitz; title: Unraveling the rabbis' web : a response to Peskowitz / Lieve Teugels; title: "Keeping it in the family" : culture, kinship and identity in 1 Thessalonians and Galatians / Philip Esler; title: The family is not all that matters : a response to Esler / Jan Willem van Henten; title: The women in John : on gender and gender bending / Sjef van Tilborg; title: The Johannine women and the social code of their time : a response to van Tilborg / Reimund Bieringer.