"Take this child and suckle it for me": wet nurses and resistance in ancient Israel
Using Exodus 2 and other references to wet nurses in the Hebrew Bible as a springboard, this article examines the socio-historical conditions of free and enslaved wet nurses in antiquity through a cross-cultural investigation of Graeco-Roman and rabbinic legal and cultural texts. It then analyzes Ex...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2009
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Biblical theology bulletin
Year: 2009, Volume: 39, Issue: 4, Pages: 180-189 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Israel (Antiquity)
/ Wet nurse
/ Social history studies
B Bible. Exodus 2,1-10 / Judea / Resistance / Iran (Antiquity) |
| Further subjects: | B
Bible. Exodus 2,1-10
B Social history studies |
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| Summary: | Using Exodus 2 and other references to wet nurses in the Hebrew Bible as a springboard, this article examines the socio-historical conditions of free and enslaved wet nurses in antiquity through a cross-cultural investigation of Graeco-Roman and rabbinic legal and cultural texts. It then analyzes Exodus 2 as an example of resistance literature during the Persian period to support anti-colonial resistance within the Jewish community in Yehud against Persian control. The wet nurse represents the resistance of the enslaved class to oppression and genocide. |
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| ISSN: | 0045-1843 |
| Contains: | In: Biblical theology bulletin
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0146107909343550 |