Mothers and Rituals of Child-Naming in Ancient Israel – Susan Ackerman (Dartmouth)
https://youtu.be/VQKLSnryVNg In Hebrew Bible accounts of child-naming, it is a child’s mother (or a mother’s female surrogate or surrogates; e.g., a midwife) who, somewhat more often than not, bestows a name on a newly delivered infant. This same tradition of mothers or their female surrogates conferring infants’ names can also be found in Egypt and...