“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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主要作者: Yee, Gale A. 1949- (Author)
格式: 電子 Article
語言:English
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出版: Sage 2009
In: Biblical theology bulletin
Year: 2009, 卷: 39, 發布: 4, Pages: 180-189
Further subjects:B Resistance
B Jochebed
B Exodus 2
B Egypt
B wet nurse
B Pharaoh’s daughter
B Miriam
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總結: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
Contains:Enthalten in: Biblical theology bulletin
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0146107909343550