This volume describes the lifecycle events and daily life activities experienced by girls and women in ancient Israel. It examines recent biblical scholarship as well as other textual evidence from the ancient Near East and Egypt.
Papers resulting from the World Archaeological Congress held in Southampton, England, September 1986 ; includes papers by A. K. Chase, D. E. Yen, S. Cane, R. Jones and B. Meehan, S. J. Hallam, M. A. Smith, which have been annotated separately.
The author argues that it is only through a combination of oral tradition and the experience of encountering ancient material culture that people are able to formulate a sense of their own pasts without having recourse to written records.
The author argues that it is only through a combination of oral tradition and the experience of encountering ancient material culture that people are able to formulate a sense of their own pasts without having recourse to written records.
The author argues that it is only through a combination of oral tradition and the experience of encountering ancient material culture that people are able to formulate a sense of their own pasts without having recourse to written records.
The peoples who inhabited Europe during the two millennia before the Roman conquests had established urban centers, large-scale production of goods such as pottery and iron tools, a money economy, and elaborate rituals and ceremonies. Yet as the author argues here, the visual wo…
