Sexual hospitality in the Hebrew Bible [electronic resource] : patronymic, metronymic, legitimate, and illegitimate relations / Thalia Gur-Klein.

A woman's life in the ancient world was constrained by her social and economic status. As a daughter she was firmly under the aegis of her father and brothers, who would later allocate the woman to another man as his wife. The power of fathers and husbands extended to using their wives and daug...

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