Chapter One: The Clarity of Double Vision: Seeing the Family in Sociological and Archaeological Perspective Chapter Two: "It's 'All in the Family': Aspects of Identity in Ancient Israel Chapter Three: Lying and Deceit in Families: The Duping of Isaac and Tamar Chapter Four: Average Families? The Problem of Variability in Iron Age Houses Chapter Five: "Home Economics 1407" and the Israelite Family and their Neighbors: An Anthropological/Archaeological Exploration Chapter Six: Food, Family, and Clothing at Passover: Ancestor Worship in Exodus 12:3-13 Chapter Seven: Death, Kinship, and Community: Funerary Practices and the hesed Ideal in Israel Chapter Eight: From Womb to Tomb: The Israelite Family in Death as in Life
The book discusses aspects of the family in ancient Israel. It includes research on ancestors and the cult of the dead, configurations of family house structures, and family relational interactions.
Dr. Patricia Dutcher-Walls, Associate Professor of Hebrew Scripture, Vancouver School of Theology; Recent publications: "Queen Mothers and Royal Politics of the Seventh Century B.C.E." in Chaney Festschrift, Sheffield Phoenix, forthcoming; "The Circumscription of the King: Deuteronomy 17:16-17 in Its Ancient Social Context," JBL 121; Jezebel: Portraits of a Queen, Liturgical Press, 2004.
Mention in Hebrew Studies 50 (2009)
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