Jewish Social Studies

Bibliographies

• Bibliography of Social History of the Jews in Antiquity

• Bibliography of Childhood in Antiquity

• Bibliography of Women in Antiquity

Topics

Social Structure

• Social Stratification
  • Priests
  • Levites
  • Israelites
  • proselyts

• Tribal Roots: Fiction and History

• Sectarianism and Social Structure

• Urbanization

Family Structure

• From Clan to a Nuclear Family

• Number of Children in the Family

• Polygamy

Demography

• The Number of Jews (in The Land of Israel, diaspora)

• Age at marriage (of Males)

• Birth Control

• Infant Mortality

• Life Expectancy

Children

• The Emergence of Childhood in Antiquity, (Hebrew, English Abstract).

• The Battered Jewish Child in Antiquity

• Children's Games in Antiquity (Hebrew).

• The Rebelious Son in Antiquity

• Sages' Daughters

Women

• The Status of Women
  • In legal matters
    
  • In Society
    

• The Attitude towards Woman in Antiquity
  • In Pseudepigrapha
    
  • In Rabbinic Sources
    

• Some "Types" of Women
  • Heroic
  • Literate
  • Women Who Recite Laments
  • Women Who Utter Prayers
  • Witches
  • Whores
  • Mother
  • Wife
  • Widow
  • Devorcee
  • The Daughter of

• Special Women
  • Queens
  • Wise

• General
  • The Demonization of Woman in Antiquity

Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal

Other Issues

• The Elderly

• The Poor

• Violence in Jewish Society
  • General
  • Against women
  • Against children

• Adultery

• Bastards

• Criminals

• Punishments

• The Insane

• Handicaps

• Eros in Jewish Society

• Outsiders of the Society: Slaves

• Mediterranean Society: Honor and Shame, love, revenge and other values

• Leisure time

• Education

  A lot of stuff was collected and put forward very nicely by Dr. Henk van Setten, University of Nijmegen, Netherland. His site is highly recommended.

• Medicine
  • Scientific vs. 'traditional' medicine
  • Physicians and their knowledge
  • Midwifery
  • Plagues

For more information look at Diotima

last updated: August 25, 2001