Women in the Ancient Near East

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 scholar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores:	Stol, Marten, author (author), Richardson, Helen, translator (translator), Richardson, M. E. J. (Mervyn Edwin John), 1943- translator
Formato:	Libro electrónico
Idioma:	Inglés
Publicado:	Boston, [Massachusetts] ; Berlin, [Germany] : De Gruyter 2016 2016.
Edición:	1st ed
Colección:	Open Access e-Books Knowledge Unlatched
Materias:	Women > Iraq > Babylonia. Civilization, Ancient. Sex role > History. Iraq > History > To 634. Ancient Near Eastern Studies. Gender. History.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:	https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009439567606719

Tabla de Contenidos:

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

Women in the Ancient Near East

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