“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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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Sage
2009
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Biblical theology bulletin
Jahr: 2009, Band: 39, Heft: 4, Seiten: 180-189 |
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Resistance
B Jochebed B Exodus 2 B Egypt B wet nurse B Pharaoh’s daughter B Miriam |
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1945-7596 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Biblical theology bulletin
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0146107909343550 |