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Women in the Ancient Near East
Marten Stol
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Women in the Ancient Near East
Marten Stol
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Women in the Ancient Near East offers a lucid account of the daily life of women in Mesopotamia from the third millennium BCE until the beginning of the Hellenistic period. The book systematically presents the lives of women emerging from the available cuneiform material and discusses modern scholarly opinion. Stol's book is the first full-scale treatment of the history of women in the Ancient Near East.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Map
- 1 Her outward appearance
- 2 Marriage
- 3 The marriage gifts
- 4 The family
- 5 A second wife
- 6 Concubines
- 7 Marriage between equals
- 8 Marriage to a slave
- 9 Divorce
- 10 Adultery
- 11 Rape
- 12 Incest
- 13 The widow
- 14 Levirate marriage
- 15 Womenâs rights of inheritance
- 16 Women-trafficking under the guise of adoption
- 17 Women robbed of their freedom
- 18 Women and work
- 19 The witch
- 20 Prostitution
- 21 Temple prostitution
- 22 Her physical life
- 23 The court and the harem before 1500 BC
- 24 The court and the harem after 1500 BC
- 25 Priestesses
- 26 Old Babylonian convents
- 27 Married holy women
- 28 Soothsaying
- 29 Women and worship
- 30 The Sacred Marriage
- 31 The Middle Assyrian law-book about women
- 32 The value placed on women
- Bibliography
- Indexes
- Endnotes
Citation styles for Women in the Ancient Near East
APA 6 Citation
Stol, M. (2016). Women in the Ancient Near East ([edition unavailable]). De Gruyter. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/647602/women-in-the-ancient-near-east-pdf (Original work published 2016)
Chicago Citation
Stol, Marten. (2016) 2016. Women in the Ancient Near East. [Edition unavailable]. De Gruyter. https://www.perlego.com/book/647602/women-in-the-ancient-near-east-pdf.
Harvard Citation
Stol, M. (2016) Women in the Ancient Near East. [edition unavailable]. De Gruyter. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/647602/women-in-the-ancient-near-east-pdf (Accessed: 14 October 2022).
MLA 7 Citation
Stol, Marten. Women in the Ancient Near East. [edition unavailable]. De Gruyter, 2016. Web. 14 Oct. 2022.