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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 27 September 2024
- ISBN 9780367820664
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages226 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 580 g
- Language English 599
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Short description:
This volume challenges patrimonialism as a political model for the ancient Near East by engaging with letters and legal texts concerning royal women at Late Bronze Age Ugarit, demonstrating women’s pivotal roles in the exercise of power and then bringing these insights to bear on the Hebrew Bible.
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This volume challenges patrimonialism as a political model for the ancient Near East by engaging with letters and legal texts concerning royal women at Late Bronze Age Ugarit, demonstrating women’s pivotal roles in the exercise of power, and then bringing these insights to bear on the Hebrew Bible.
The book offers a new vision of how women figure in ancient political systems. Through an analysis of royal letters, legal verdicts, and regional records, it examines overt claims and implicit anxieties concerning the pivotal roles of royal women. Three case studies from Late Bronze Age Ugarit reveal that a single woman functioning in a range of modalities—mother, daughter, sister, and wife—brokered a network of relationships among a range of men. Patrimonialism depended on the political polyvalence of women. Texts from Ugarit attest to this reality, and the biblical royal women of the House of David amplify its significance. This analysis of women’s activity within and among royal households is productive not only for the study of the Late Bronze Age Levant, but also as a model for analogous inquiries into ancient societies and other systems in which data are thin and patrimonialism widely in evidence.
Royal Women at Ugarit is suitable for students and scholars working on women and gender in the ancient Near East, as well as those interested in the political realm of the Late Bronze Age and the intersections of biblical literature with other ancient texts.
"The analysis of all the documentation is very deft and perceptive, and all relevant records are meticulously picked over for clues... This is an important contribution on several fronts." - Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction; 1. Politics and Patrimonialism; 2. Royal Mothers and Sons in the Ugaritic Letters; 3. Royal Mothers and Sons in Imperial Perspective; 4. The Divorce of the Daughter of the Great Lady; 5. “Her Brother May Not Speak with Her”: Embattled Kingship; 6. Ugarit and Beyond: Points of Contact with Biblical Patrimonialism; Conclusion.
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