Children, Motherhood, and the Social Death of Childless Women: The Social and Theological Construction of Infertility in the Hebrew Bible and in Cameroon

This paper reviews the biblical mandate to have children in tension with the claim that God holds the exclusive power to open and close wombs. What are the social and cultural implications of this theological assertion for procreative disadvantaged women in the Hebrew Bible (Sarah [Gen.16], Rebecca...

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Main Author: Yafeh-Deigh, Alice (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2020
In: Biblical interpretation
Year: 2020, Volume: 28, Issue: 5, Pages: 608-634
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Sterility / Childlessness / Reproduction / Woman / Cameroon / Old Testament
IxTheo Classification:FD Contextual theology
HB Old Testament
NCF Sexual ethics
Further subjects:B Procreation
B Infertility
B Childlessness
B Gender
B Children
B pronatal societies
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