Maturity, Marriage, Motherhood, Mortality
Women's Life-Cycle Rituals in Ancient Israel
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 29 October 2025
- ISBN 9780197809655
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages408 pages
- Size 234x156x26 mm
- Weight 748 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 13 b&w halftones 633
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Short description:
Maturity, Marriage, Motherhood, Mortality is a study of women's life-cycle rituals in ancient Israel, beginning with rituals that marked a girl child's birth and then considering a young woman's coming of age and her betrothal and wedding, as well as rituals undertaken by women during pregnancy and during the days and early years after giving birth, before concluding with a discussion of rituals enacted upon a woman's death.
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Maturity, Marriage, Motherhood, Mortality is a deft study of women's life-cycle rituals in ancient Israel. These include rituals that marked a young woman's coming of age (“maturity”) and her betrothal and wedding (“marriage”); rituals undertaken by women during pregnancy, parturition, and their first days and early years after giving birth (“motherhood”); and rituals that were enacted at the time of a woman's death and in the months and years that followed (“mortality”).
The book's aims are tripartite. The first is to sketch as fully as possible a picture of women's life-cycle events and rituals from preexilic and early postexilic Israel, using both evidence that can be gleaned from our primary source for the religious traditions of ancient Israel-the Bible-as well as extrabiblical data, including ancient Israelite archaeological data and archaeological, iconographic, and textual data that come from the many peoples of the ancient Near East and eastern Mediterranean by whom the Israelites were influenced or with whom they interacted.
The second is to highlight the several distinctive features that characterized women's life-cycle events and rituals: for example, the way women's life-cycle events can flow as a virtually uninterrupted ritual continuum, from, say, coming of age, to betrothal, to marriage, to motherhood, and also the ways in which Israelite women's experiences during life-cycle events and rituals differed from those of their male counterparts. The experience of a bride who is “given” to her prospective spouse during betrothal and wedding rituals is different, for example, than the experience of a groom who “takes” a woman in marriage. Finally, the book offers a six-part theoretical model that explains the distinctive features that appear within Israelite women's life-cycle rituals and that accounts for the differences between women's life-cycle rituals and men's.
Table of Contents:
Prologue: Of Universals and Not
Introduction: The Nature of Women's Life-Cycle Rituals
Part I. A Girl's Birth and Coming into Maturity
The Birth of a Female Child
Women's (and Men's) Coming of Age
Part II. Marriage
Israelite Betrothal Rituals
A Young Woman's Wedding
Part III. Motherhood
Pregnancy and Childbirth
Naming a Child
Nursing and Weaning a Child
Interlude
Menopause
Part IV. Mortality
Ritually Marking a Woman's Death
Epilogue: Of Fragments and (W)holes
