Chapter 1. Family Life and Marriage Basic Household Structures Household Size and Larger Population Estimates Life in the Household Marriage Finding a Partner Marriage Gifts and Dowry Arrangements The Economics of Divorce Summary Chapter 2. The Status of Women and Children Roles and Responsibilities of Women The Status of Widows Children Roles and Responsibilities of Male Offspring Roles and Responsibilities of Daughters Responsibilities toward Parents Inheritance Debt Slavery Summary Chapter 3. Work and Financial Exchanges Occupations The Challenges of Farming Animal Husbandry Other Occupations Financial Exchanges Borrowing and Lending Interest 1 The Practice of Surety Bribery Summary Chapter 4. Taxation and the Role of the State Taxation in an Advanced Agrarian Economy: Anthropological Perspectives Persian Period Ptolemaic Period Seleucid Period The Hasmoneans Roman Period Summary Chapter 5. The Ethics of Wealth and Poverty Ethics of Wealth and Poverty in the Wisdom Literature Contradictions in the Book of Proverbs Skepticism in the Books of Job and Ecclesiastes Ben Sira and Social Ethics Second Temple Instructions and Question of an Afterlife Apocalyptic Eschatology, Economics, and Social Ethics 4QInstruction and the Dead Sea Scrolls The Epistle of Enoch and the Gospel of Luke Wisdom and Apocalypticism The Question of Social Location.