POSTPONED | What to Expect When You’re Expecting (in Ancient Judaism) Seminar
- Date:
- 20 February 2024
- Venue:
- Online via Zoom
For more information regarding this seminar, please email parkes@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
THIS TALK HAS BEEN POSTPONED. WE WILL ANNOUNCE THE NEW DATE IN DUE COURSE. 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.
About the Speaker
Laura Quick is an Associate Professor of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at the University of Oxford. She specialises in the Hebrew Bible and the study of gender, sex and the body in antiquity.