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Women in the Ancient Near East
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht/Copyright:
2016
Über dieses Buch
Women in the Ancient Near East offers a lucid account of the daily life of women in Mesopotamia from the third millennium BCE until the beginning of the Hellenistic period. The book systematically presents the lives of women emerging from the available cuneiform material and discusses modern scholarly opinion. Stol’s book is the first full-scale treatment of the history of women in the Ancient Near East.
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Frontmatter
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Table of Contents
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Introduction
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Map
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1. Her outward appearance
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2. Marriage
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3. The marriage gifts
112 -
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4. The family
147 -
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5. A second wife
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6. Concubines
193 -
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7. Marriage between equals
200 -
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8. Marriage to a slave
205 -
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9. Divorce
209 -
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10. Adultery
234 -
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11. Rape
254 -
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12. Incest
268 -
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13. The widow
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14. Levirate marriage
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15. Women’s rights of inheritance
300 -
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16. Women-trafficking under the guise of adoption
304 -
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17. Women robbed of their freedom
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18. Women and work
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19. The witch
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20. Prostitution
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21. Temple prostitution
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22. Her physical life
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23. The court and the harem before 1500 BC
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24. The court and the harem after 1500 BC
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25. Priestesses
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26. Old Babylonian convents
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27. Married holy women
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28. Soothsaying
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29. Women and worship
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30. The Sacred Marriage
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31. The Middle Assyrian law-book about women
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32. The value placed on women
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Bibliography
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Indexes
693
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eBook veröffentlicht am:
8. August 2016
eBook ISBN:
9781614512639
Gebunden veröffentlicht am:
8. August 2016
Gebunden ISBN:
9781614513230
Seiten und Bilder/Illustrationen im Buch
Frontmatter:
10
Inhalt:
696
Zielgruppe(n) für dieses Buch
All those interested in the history of women in the ancient Near East, students and scholars of Assyriology, Biblical Studies, and Gender Studies as well as ancient historians.
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