Selling Sons and Daughters in Israeli community بيع الأبناء عند بني إسرائيل | ||||
حولية الاتحاد العام للآثاريين العرب "دراسات فى آثار الوطن العربى" | ||||
Article 14, Volume 20, Issue 1, 2017, Page 440-471 PDF (508.9 K) | ||||
Document Type: Original Article | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/cguaa.2017.29546 | ||||
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Heba Mohammed | ||||
• Lecturer of history and civilization of Ancient Egypt and Ancient Near East. Department of History- Faculty of Arts- Aswan University | ||||
Abstract | ||||
This study aims at shedding light on a prevailing phenomenon in the region of ancient near East, which is selling sons and daughters. Because of economic hardships of life, father, as the first responsible for the family, is enforced to sell his sons and daughters. In this study, the researcher attempts to determine reasons that make parents sell their sons and daughters according to old testement. Torah mentions this process of selling sons and daughters, determining their cost, and showing how these sons and daughters can be released later. The main reason of this process of selling is poverty which enforces fathers to lend money for the sake of their family. Moreover, social reasons and natural catastrophes may be seen as extra reasons يهدف البحث إلى إلقاء الضوء على ظاهرة انتشرت في عصرنا الحديث ولم تکن وليدة هذا العصر، بل امتدت جذورها في منطقة الشرق الأدنى القديم , ألا وهى ظاهرة "بيع الأبناء"، فقد أجبرت الظروف الوالدين في مجتمع بني إسرائيل , وفي الغالب الأب الذي يعد المسئول الأول عن الحياة الأسرية على بيع أبنائه. وقد حاولت الباحثة: تحديد الأسباب التي تؤدى إلى قيام الآباء إلى بيع أبنائهم من خلال تحليل أسفار التوراه، والتي ذکرت فيها عملية بيع الأبناء، بالإضافة إلى تحديد قيمة بيعهم، وکيفية الإفراج عنهم بعد ذلک. وقد انحصرت الأسباب الرئيسية التي أدت إلى عملية هذا البيع في الغالب إلى الظروف الاقتصادية المتمثلة في الفقر، الذي يجبر الأب أن يستدين (يقترض) من أجل أبنائه، بالإضافة إلى أسباب اجتماعية وکوارث طبيعية | ||||
Keywords | ||||
Sons and Daughters; parents; Starvation; Israelis; selling meconomy الأبناء; الوالدين; المجاعة; بنى إسرائيل; البيع; الاقتصاد | ||||
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