Christine Neal Thomas
@christinenthomas.bsky.social
Teacher and scholar of women and gender in the Hebrew Bible and the ancient world
This Thursday, February 20, at 12:30 PM I am giving a public lecture on my book at Hebrew Union College’s Klau Library. The event will be hybrid and the information on registration for the online component is here: huc.edu/libraries/li...
February 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
This Thursday, February 20, at 12:30 PM I am giving a public lecture on my book at Hebrew Union College’s Klau Library. The event will be hybrid and the information on registration for the online component is here: huc.edu/libraries/li...
Reposted by Christine Neal Thomas
The most fun I had at the Society of Biblical Literature meeting was giving a keynote talk for @christinenthomas.bsky.social brilliant new book: her research on Canaanite royalty transforms an old assumption that the ancient Near East's families and societies were built on a 'house of the father'
The second is Christine Neal Thomas' Royal Women at Ugarit: Reconceiving the House of the Father, based on but going beyond her Harvard PhD dissertation which was the first well-documented challenge to the dominant vision of social order in the ancient Near East.
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Royal Women at Ugarit: Reconceiving the House of the Father
This volume challenges patrimonialism as a political model for the ancient Near East by engaging with letters and legal texts concerning royal women at Late Bronze Age Ugarit, demonstrating women’s pi...
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February 16, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The most fun I had at the Society of Biblical Literature meeting was giving a keynote talk for @christinenthomas.bsky.social brilliant new book: her research on Canaanite royalty transforms an old assumption that the ancient Near East's families and societies were built on a 'house of the father'