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Marriage Gifts and Social Change in Ancient Palestine - 1200 BCE to 200 CE (Paperback)
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Marriage Gifts and Social Change in Ancient Palestine - 1200 BCE to 200 CE (Paperback)
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T. M. Lemos traces changes in the marriage customs of ancient
Palestine over the course of several hundred years. The most
important of these changes was a shift in emphasis from bridewealth
to dowry, the latter of which clearly predominated in the
Hellenistic and Roman periods. Whereas previous scholarship has
often attributed these shifts to the influence of foreign groups,
Lemos connects them instead with a transformation that occurred in
Palestine's social structure during the very same period. In the
early Iron Age, Israel was a kinship-based society with a
subsistence economy, but as the centuries passed it became
increasingly complex and developed marked divisions between rich
and poor. At the same time, the importance of its kinship groups
waned greatly. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach that draws
heavily on anthropological research, cultural theory,
archaeological evidence, and historical-critical methods, Lemos
posits that shifts in marriage customs were directly related to
these wider social changes.
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