The Family in Life and in Death: The Family in Ancient Israel : Sociological and Archaeological Perspectives (Paperback)

Chapter One: The Clarity of Double Vision: Seeing the Family in Sociological and Archaeological Perspective Chapter Two: "It's 'All in the Family': Aspects of Identity in Ancient Israel Chapter Three: Lying and Deceit in Families: The Duping of Isaac and Tamar Chapter Four: Average Families? The Problem of Variability in Iron Age Houses Chapter Five: "Home Economics 1407" and the Israelite Family and their Neighbors: An Anthropological/Archaeological Exploration Chapter Six: Food, Family, and Clothing at Passover: Ancestor Worship in Exodus 12:3-13 Chapter Seven: Death, Kinship, and Community: Funerary Practices and the hesed Ideal in Israel Chapter Eight: From Womb to Tomb: The Israelite Family in Death as in Life