The world of women in the ancient and classical Near East / edited by Beth Alpert Nakhai.
Contributor(s): Nakhai, Beth Alpert
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TextPublisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008Description: xviii, 215 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781443800303; 1443800309Subject(s): Women -- Middle East -- History -- To 500LOC classification: HQ1137.M628 | W67 2008Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dark men, light women : origins of color as gender indicator in ancient Egypt / Mary Ann Eaverly -- A taste of women's sociality : cooking as cooperative labor in Iron Age Syro-Palestine / Aubrey Baadsgaard -- Baking and brewing beer in the Israelite household : a study of women's cooking technology / Jennie R. Ebeling and Michael M. Homan -- Bringing home the artifacts : a social interpretation of loom weights in context / Deborah Cassuto -- Infant mortality and women's religion in the biblical periods / Elizabeth Ann R. Willett -- Mut' a marriage in the Roman Near East : the evidence from Palmyro, Syria / Cynthia Finlayson -- A restless silence : women in the Byzantine archaeological record / Marcia Cassis -- Fe(male) potters as the personification of individuals, places, and things as known from ethnoarchaeological studies / Gloria London -- "Working Egyptians of the world unite!" : how Edith Nesbit used Near Eastern archaeology and children's literature to argue for social change / Kevin McGeough and Elizabeth Galway.