- Tytuł:
- A Stranger in My Own Land: Can a Sojourner Belong to the Household?
- Autorzy:
- Clifton, Bruno
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/20679093.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2023-07-11
- Wydawca:
- Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
- Tematy:
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stranger
ger
client
dependent worker
household
social structures
biblical law
foreigner
sojourner - Opis:
- Occasionally, the biblical term גר has been taken to refer to a “dependent worker” or “client” based on the thought that household membership can be gained through work provided to the household. Mention of household membership tests the identity of the sojourner in the ancient world as stranger or foreigner; a social category listed with widows and orphans—whose status is also defined by the household— as deserving of protection. Given its centrality as a basic social unit in the ancient Near East, we might expect that purchase in a household would grant a status that dissolves the social distance and attendant consequences (fragility of income, lack of patrimony, object of suspicion) thought to be borne by גרים. In what sense, then, is a “dependent worker” who secures membership in the household a גר ? This article reconsiders how distant a person must be from the society within which he resides to make him a ,גר shifting the semantic emphasis of this term away from origin and towards social integration.
- Źródło:
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The Biblical Annals; 2023, 13, 3; 367-383
2083-2222
2451-2168 - Pojawia się w:
- The Biblical Annals
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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