Women in the Ancient Near East / Marten Stol.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (706 p.)Content type:- text
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- 9781614512639
- 305.40935/5 23
- HQ1137.I72 .S86 2016eb
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Map -- 1. Her outward appearance -- 2. Marriage -- 3. The marriage gifts -- 4. The family -- 5. A second wife -- 6. Concubines -- 7. Marriage between equals -- 8. Marriage to a slave -- 9. Divorce -- 10. Adultery -- 11. Rape -- 12. Incest -- 13. The widow -- 14. Levirate marriage -- 15. Women's rights of inheritance -- 16. Women-trafficking under the guise of adoption -- 17. Women robbed of their freedom -- 18. Women and work -- 19. The witch -- 20. Prostitution -- 21. Temple prostitution -- 22. Her physical life -- 23. The court and the harem before 1500 BC -- 24. The court and the harem after 1500 BC -- 25. Priestesses -- 26. Old Babylonian convents -- 27. Married holy women -- 28. Soothsaying -- 29. Women and worship -- 30. The Sacred Marriage -- 31. The Middle Assyrian law-book about women -- 32. The value placed on women -- Bibliography -- Indexes
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