Ben Sira on Family, Gender, and Sexuality / / Ibolya Balla.
The book investigates Ben Sira’s attitudes toward all matters pertaining to sexuality in the context of family relations and gender issues. The author’s seemingly negative attitude to women, the anxiety expressed in the discussions of marital and extramarital relations, and the disciplining of child...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (334 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Table of contents
- Introduction with literature review and methodology
- Chapter 1: Respect for fathers and mothers and the treatmentofwidows
- Chapter 2: The anxiety of bringing up children: teachings on sons and daughters
- Chapter 3: Teachings on marital relationships
- Chapter 4: Teachings on sexual behaviour that is either illicit and/or discouraged, including adultery and approaching prostitutes, virgins, maidservants
- Chapter 5: Wisdom poems
- Chapter 6: Conclusion
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index of modern authors
- Index of ancient texts