Family and Household Religion in Ancient Israel and the Levant

by Rainer Albertz

During the past several decades, family and household religion has become a topic of Old Testament scholarship in its own right, fed by what were initially three distinct approaches: the religious-historical approach, the gender-oriented approach, and the archaeological approach. The first pursues answers to questions of the commonality and difference between varieties of family religion and describes the household and family religions of Mesopotamia,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575062321
• ISBN13: 9781575062327
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Eisenbrauns
• Length: 720 Pages
• Weight: 3.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 7.3" x 10.2"