Feminine Private Roles In Ancient Near East A Comparative Study With A Stress On The Israelite Woman’s Condition
Feminine Private Roles In Ancient Near East A Comparative Study With A Stress On The Israelite Woman’s Condition

Summary/Abstract: The following pages are meant to give the reader an insight into a much-debated topic in the last decades of the 20th, and an ever-growing one in the current century. The study deals with private roles played by the ancient Near Eastern woman, all placed not in patterns, but in contexts, and following the peculiarities of different civilizations. Out of concern not to offer the reader a sole angle of the issue, the author quotes legal codes and literary works of the time, adding an extra flavor given by modern archaeological findings. By use of biographical presentation, the girl and the woman are literally watched as they grow and develop under the authority of the law and the protection of a male presence. The condition of the daughter, the wife and the widow are dealt with consequently, by discussing their legal position and, sometimes, the paradigms they fall into.

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