“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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Autor principal: Yee, Gale A. 1949- (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Publicado: Sage 2009
En: Biblical theology bulletin
Año: 2009, Volumen: 39, Número: 4, Páginas: 180-189
Otras palabras clave:B Resistance
B Jochebed
B Exodus 2
B Egypt
B wet nurse
B Pharaoh’s daughter
B Miriam
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Sumario: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 2as 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.
ISSN:1945-7596
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Biblical theology bulletin
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0146107909343550