“Take This Child and Suckle It for Me”: Wet Nurses and Resistance in Ancient Israel
Abstract
Using Exodus 2 and other references to wet nurses in the Hebrew Bible as a springboard, this article examines the socio-historical conditions of free and enslaved wet nurses in antiquity through a cross-cultural investigation of Graeco-Roman and rabbinic legal and cultural texts. It then analyzes Exodus 2as an example of resistance literature during the Persian period to support anti-colonial resistance within the Jewish community in Yehud against Persian control. The wet nurse represents the resistance of the enslaved class to oppression and genocide.
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There is little evidence of ethnic specificity in the choice of wet-nurses in antiquity.
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From PROPHECIES AND PRINCESSES: MOSES IN EGYPT AND ETHIOPIA ACCORDING TO JOSEPHUS (2022) · cites this paper as Yee 2009:184
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Westwood, U. (2022) · Akroterion · doi:10.7445/67--1047
- Authors
- Yee, G. A.
- Affiliations
- Episcopal Divinity School (US)
- Corresponding author
- Yee, Gale A.
- Venue
- Biblical Theology Bulletin: Journal of Bible and Culture
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2009-09-11
- Volume
- 39
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 180-189
- ISSN
- 0146-1079 (ISSN-L)
- 1945-7596
- OpenAlex
- W2006651068
- Cited by
- 11
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 14.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Biblical Theology Bulletin Journal of Bible and Culture (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Biblical Studies and Interpretation
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Classical Antiquity Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Ancient Near East History
- Keywords
- wet nurses, Hebrew Bible, slavery, resistance literature, Persian period, Yehud, anti-colonial resistance, rabbinic literature, ancient Israel
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