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Women in the Ancient Near East
Women in the Ancient Near East offers a lucid account of the daily life of women in Mesopotamia from the third millennium BCE until the beginning of the Hellenistic period. The book systematically presents the lives of women emerging from the available cuneiform material and discusses modern scholarly opinion. Stol’s book is the first full-scale treatment of the history of women in the Ancient Near East.
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Map
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1 Her outward appearance
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1.1 Phases of life
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1.2 The girl
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1.3 The virgin
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1.4 Women’s clothing
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1.5 Cosmetics and beauty
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1.6 The language of women
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1.7 Women’s names
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2 Marriage
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2.1 Preparations
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2.2 Age for marrying
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2.3 Regulations
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2.4 The betrothal
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2.5 The wedding
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2.6 Marriage and magic
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3 The marriage gifts
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3.1 General remarks
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3.2 The bride-price
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3.3 The dowry
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3.4 Gifts from the man
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4 The family
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4.1 Impotence
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4.2 Children
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4.3 The mother
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4.4 Bereavement
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4.5 Childlessness
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4.6 Repudiation of a childless wife
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5 A second wife
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5.1 A slave-girl
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5.2 Initiating the transaction
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5.3 The second wife in the Old Assyrian period
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5.4 The second wife in later periods
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5.5 The position of the second wife when the first wife is ill
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- 6 Concubines
- 7 Marriage between equals
- 8 Marriage to a slave
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9 Divorce
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9.1 In Babylonia
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9.2 In Assyria
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9.3 In the Neo-Babylonian period
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9.4 In Syria
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9.5 Motives for divorce
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9.6 Predictions
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9.7 Reconciliation
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10 Adultery
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10.1 Women who initiate adultery
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10.2 Were both lovers treated equally?
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10.3 Caught in the act
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10.4 Punishment
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10.5 Accusations of adultery
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10.6 The Mother of Sin
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10.7 An adulterous princess?
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11 Rape
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11.1 Slave-girl
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11.2 Unmarried girl
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11.3 Married woman
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11.4 The locations
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11.5 In myths
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11.6 The right of the first night
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12 Incest
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12.1 Promiscuity
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12.2 Incest
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13 The widow
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13.1 Poor widows
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13.2 Arrangements made for widows in wills
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13.3 Powerful widows
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13.4 Remarrying
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13.5 Cohabiting
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13.6 Widows with children
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- 14 Levirate marriage
- 15 Women’s rights of inheritance
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16 Women-trafficking under the guise of adoption
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16.1 The Old Babylonian period
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16.2 Nuzi
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17 Women robbed of their freedom
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17.1 Security for a man’s debts
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17.2 The woman as guarantor
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17.3 Imprisoned for murder
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17.4 The sale of children in time of need
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17.5 Dedicated to a temple
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17.6 Prisoners of war
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18 Women and work
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18.1 Working outside the home
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18.2 Weavers
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18.3 Grinding flour
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18.4 Women as musicians and singers
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18.5 The female innkeeper
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18.6 Scribes
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18.7 The female doctor
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18.8 Wailing women
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18.9 Women involved in childbirth
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18.10 Business women
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18.11 Women’s seals
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18.12 Women as witnesses
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- 19 The witch
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20 Prostitution
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20.1 Where she worked
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20.2 Dressed for work
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20.3 Slave-girls
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20.4 The risk of pregnancy
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20.5 Forced into prostitution
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20.6 Marriage
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20.7 Social esteem
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21 Temple prostitution
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21.1 Internal evidence
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21.2 The kezertu
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21.3 Devaluing old titles
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21.4 Income
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21.5 Goddess and whore
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21.6 A wild celebration
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22 Her physical life
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22.1 Physiology
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22.2 Menstruation
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22.3 Diseases
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22.4 The old woman
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22.5 Dead and buried
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23 The court and the harem before 1500 BC
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23.1 The Sumerians
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23.2 Ebla
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23.3 Funerals
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23.4 The Old Akkadian period
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23.5 The kingdom of Ur III
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23.6 The Old Babylonian period
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24 The court and the harem after 1500 BC
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24.1 Babylonia
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24.2 Assyria
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24.3 Nuzi
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24.4 The Hittites and Egypt
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24.5 Ugarit
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24.6 The Neo-Assyrian period
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24.7 The Neo-Babylonian period
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24.8 The Persian period and later
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24.9 Arab queens
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25 Priestesses
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25.1 The high priestesses
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25.2 Priestesses in Mari
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25.3 Priestesses in the Old Assyrian period
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25.4 Priestesses after the Old Babylonian period
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26 Old Babylonian convents
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26.1 Words for a ‘nun’
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26.2 The nadîtu
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26.3 Inauguration
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26.4 High status
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26.5 Duties
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26.6 Care in old age
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26.7 The demise of the convent
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27 Married holy women
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27.1 The nadîtu of Marduk the god of Babylon
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27.2 The holy woman, the qadištu
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27.3 The kulmašītu
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28 Soothsaying
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28.1 Dreams, prophecy and ecstasy in Mari
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28.2 Prophecy in Assyria
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29 Women and worship
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29.1 Offerings for the dead
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29.2 Making intercession
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29.3 The woman and her goddess
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29.4 The mourning for Tammuz
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30 The Sacred Marriage
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30.1 Poetry
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30.2 The reality of the situation
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30.3 The function of the ritual
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30.4 The Assyrian period and later
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30.5 The demise of goddesses
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- 31 The Middle Assyrian law-book about women
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32 The value placed on women
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32.1 Positive views
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32.2 Negative views
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32.3 Women compared with men
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- Bibliography
- Indexes
- Endnotes
- 出版地 ： 德國
- 語言 ： 德文
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