Family and Household Religion : Toward a Synthesis of Old Testament Studies, Archaeology, Epigraphy, and Cultural Studies.

Intro -- COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1: Women's Rites of Passage in Ancient Israel Three Case Studies (Birth, Coming of Age, and Death) -- Chapter 2: The Relevance of Hebrew Name Seals for Reconstructing Judahite and Israelite Family Religion -- Chapter 3: The Household as Sacred Space -- Chapter 4: Philistine Cult and Household Religion according to the Archaeological Record -- Chapter 5: Anomalies in the Archaeological Record Evidence for Domestic andIndustrial Cults in Central Jordan -- Chapter 6: The Judean "Pillar-Base Figurines"Mothers or "Mother-Goddesses"? -- Chapter 7: The House and the World The Israelite House as a Microcosm -- Chapter 8 -- Healing Rituals at the Intersection of Family and Society -- Chapter 9: Family Religion from a Northern Levantine Perspective -- Chapter 10: Horses and Riders and Riders and Horses -- Chapter 11: Feast Days and Food Ways Religious Dimensions of Household Life -- Chapter 12: The Roles of Kin and Fictive Kin in Biblical Representations of Death Ritual -- Chapter 13: A Typology of Iron Age Cult Places -- Chapter 14: The Textual and Social Embeddedness of Israelite Family Religion Who Were the Players? Where Were the Stages? -- Bibliography -- Index.

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