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Marriage Gifts and Social Change in Ancient Palestine

1200 BCE to 200 CE

  • 4 Point and under
  • Paperback
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm

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T. M. Lemos traces changes in the marriage customs of ancient Palestine over the course of several hundred years. The most important of these changes was a shift in emphasis from bridewealth to dowry, the latter of which clearly predominated in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Whereas previous scholarship has often attributed these shifts to the influence of foreign groups, Lemos connects them instead with a transformation that occurred in Palestine's social structure during the very same period. In the early Iron Age, Israel was a kinship-based society with a subsistence economy, but as the centuries passed it became increasingly complex and developed marked divisions between rich and poor. At the same time, the importance of its kinship groups waned greatly. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach that draws heavily on anthropological research, cultural theory, archaeological evidence, and historical-critical methods, Lemos posits that shifts in marriage customs were directly related to these wider social changes.
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  • Author

    T. M. Lemos (assistant Professor Of Hebrew Bible And Ancient Near Eastern Language And Literature, Rhodes College, Memphis)

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    January 2014

  • Weight

    459g

  • Page Count

    310

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9781107643215

  • ISBN-10

    110764321X

  • Eden Code

    4260960

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