"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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Sage Publications
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) |
IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
Further subjects: | B
Bible. Exodus 2,1-10
B Social history studies |
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