La semántica de la maternidad

Ortiz, Clara Carbonell
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Title La semántica de la maternidad : fecundidad, esterilidad y esclavas en el Antiguo Israel.
Host Item Sefarad 79,2 (2020) 323-355
Description This article analyses the discourse on female procreating nature as reflected in Biblical Hebrew. Adopting a gender perspective and using a philological method, I study an array of roots (ל''ד', שכ''ל, עק''ר) and one idiomatic expression (-ל''ד על ברכ') which are objects of scholarly debate and which were employed to describe – and prescribe– the reproductive role of Israelite women. The naming of motherhood, its absence and the resort to slave exploitation as a way to end childlessness are the topics which this piece of research aims to address. Special attention is drawn to the semantics of the lexema עקרה, where I discuss its conventional rendering as “barren” and make a proposal which, albeit not completely new, has never been thoroughly justified
Language Spanish
National Library system number 997008762588705171
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