The Social Roles of Maternal Kin in Biblical Hebrew Narrative and Poetry
by
Cynthia R. Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A novel approach to Israelite kinship, arguing that maternal kinship bonds played key social, economic, and political roles for a son who aspired to inherit his father’s household Upending traditional scholarship on patrilineal genealogy, Cynthia Chapman draws on twenty years of research to uncover...