Zoom event: What to Expect When You’re Expecting (in Ancient Judaism)

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON: What to Expect When You’re Expecting (in Ancient Judaism) Seminar (Professor Laura Quick).

Date: 20 February 2024
Venue: Online via Zoom

Event details

In this talk, we will explore ancient Jewish ideas about childbirth and childrearing, including sex, conception, and lactation. Using comparative evidence from the ancient eastern Mediterranean alongside close readings of biblical and ancient Jewish texts, we will consider what it meant to conceive, birth, and look after a baby, and in particular how gender figured into the embodied practices of childbirth and childrearing.

The event is free, but requires pr-registration at the link.

PaleoJudaica has notes some of Professor Quick's wide-ranging work here, here, here, and here.

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