The Gift in Antiquity

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Michael Satlow
Wiley, 12.02.2013 - 272 Seiten

The Gift in Antiquity presents a collection of 14 original essays that apply French sociologist Marcel Mauss’s notion of gift-giving to the study of antiquity.

  • Features a collection of original essays that cover such wide-ranging topics as vows in the Hebrew Bible; ancient Greek wedding gifts; Hellenistic civic practices; Latin literature; Roman and Jewish burial practices; and Jewish and Christian religious gifts
  • Organizes essays around theoretical concerns rather than chronologically
  • Generates unique insights into gift-giving and reciprocity in antiquity
  • Takes an explicitly cross-cultural approach to the study of ancient history

Autoren-Profil (2013)

Michael L. Satlow is Professor of Religious Studies and Judaic Studies at Brown University. He is the author of Creating Judaism: History, Tradition, Practice (2006); Jewish Marriage in Antiquity (2001); Rabbinic Rhetorics of Sexuality (1995) and numerous essays on Jews and Judaism in antiquity.

Bibliografische Informationen

TitelThe Gift in Antiquity
Ancient World: Comparative Histories
HerausgeberMichael Satlow
VerlagWiley, 2013
ISBN1118517881, 9781118517888
Länge272 Seiten
  
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