Thalia Gur Klein has an MA in Hebrew and Jewish Studies from the University of Amsterdam and is currently studying for a PhD at the University of Winchester.

• Introduction 1. Patriarch Hospitality and Sexual Hospitality 2. Marital and Non-Marital Systems 3. Baal Marriage of Dominion 4. Metronymic Marriage: Remaining with Kin – Counter-patterns of Baal Marriage 5. Intersecting Patterns and Conflicting Imperatives 6. Widow Marriage, Land and Kin Surrogacy 7. Epilogue: Moral Imagination

"Sexual hospitality, an institution well documented for many societies, has also left traces in the biblical record. Thalia Gur-Klein assembles these, and offers a compelling interpretation." – Bernhard Lang, University of Paderborn, Germany

Thalia Gur Klein has an MA in Hebrew and Jewish Studies from the University of Amsterdam and is currently studying for a PhD at the University of Winchester.

• Introduction 1. Patriarch Hospitality and Sexual Hospitality 2. Marital and Non-Marital Systems 3. Baal Marriage of Dominion 4. Metronymic Marriage: Remaining with Kin – Counter-patterns of Baal Marriage 5. Intersecting Patterns and Conflicting Imperatives 6. Widow Marriage, Land and Kin Surrogacy 7. Epilogue: Moral Imagination

"Sexual hospitality, an institution well documented for many societies, has also left traces in the biblical record. Thalia Gur-Klein assembles these, and offers a compelling interpretation." – Bernhard Lang, University of Paderborn, Germany

Thalia Gur Klein has an MA in Hebrew and Jewish Studies from the University of Amsterdam and is currently studying for a PhD at the University of Winchester.

• Introduction 1. Patriarch Hospitality and Sexual Hospitality 2. Marital and Non-Marital Systems 3. Baal Marriage of Dominion 4. Metronymic Marriage: Remaining with Kin – Counter-patterns of Baal Marriage 5. Intersecting Patterns and Conflicting Imperatives 6. Widow Marriage, Land and Kin Surrogacy 7. Epilogue: Moral Imagination

"Sexual hospitality, an institution well documented for many societies, has also left traces in the biblical record. Thalia Gur-Klein assembles these, and offers a compelling interpretation." – Bernhard Lang, University of Paderborn, Germany