Social Inequality in the World of the Text: The Significance of Ritual and Social Distinctions in the Hebrew Bible
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Introduction; Section 1: Rites and Social Status ; Introduction; Honor, Shame and Covenant Relations in Ancient Israel and Its Environment; What Do Shaving Rites Accomplish and What Do They Signal in Biblical Ritual Contexts?; Section 2: Gender...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
2011
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| Dans: | Année: 2011 |
| Édition: | Online-Ausg. |
| Collection/Revue: | Journal of Ancient Judaism. Supplements
v.4 EBL-Schweitzer |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Bibel. Altes Testament
/ Rite
/ Inégalité sociale
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| RelBib Classification: | HB Ancien Testament |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Equality -- Biblical teaching
B Bible. O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc B Bible. O.T B Rites and ceremonies in the Bible B Electronic books B Sociology, Biblical B Recueil d'articles |
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Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (Verlag) |
| Édition parallèle: | Non-électronique
Print version: Social Inequality in the World of the Text: The Significance of Ritual and Social Distinctions in the Hebrew Bible |
| Résumé: | Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Introduction; Section 1: Rites and Social Status ; Introduction; Honor, Shame and Covenant Relations in Ancient Israel and Its Environment; What Do Shaving Rites Accomplish and What Do They Signal in Biblical Ritual Contexts?; Section 2: Gender and Sexuality ; Introduction; "And with a Male You Shall Not Lie the Lying Down of a Woman": On the Meaning and Significance of Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13; "Surpassing the Love of Women": Another Look at 2 Sam 1: and the Relationship of David and Jonathan Occasionally Beyond Gender: The Rhetoric of Familial Nurture in Discourses of West Asian Kings and their AgentsSection 3: Disability ; Introduction; "Anyone Blind or Lame Shall Not Enter the House": On the Interpretation of 2 Samuel 5:8b; The Exegetical Dimensions of Restrictions on the Blind and the Lame in Texts from Qumran; The Ascription of Physical Disability as a Stigmatizing Strategy in Biblical Iconic Polemics ; Section 4: Holiness, Purity, and the Alien ; Introduction; Purity Ideology in Ezra-Nehemiah as a Tool to Reconstitute the Community "Sie sollen nicht in die Gemeinde des Herrn kommen": Aspekte gesellschaftlicher Inklusion und Exklusion in Dtn 23,4-9 und seine frühen AuslegungenMary Douglas's Holiness/Wholeness Paradigm: Its Potential for Insight and its Limitations; Section 5: Death, Burial, Afterlife, and their Metaphorical Uses ; Introduction; Unnoticed Resonances of Tomb Opening and Transportation of the Remains of the Dead in Ezekiel 37:12-14; Was the "King of Babylon" Buried Before His Corpse Was Exposed? Some Thoughts on Isa 14:19; Some Neglected Aspects of Israelite Interment Ideology ; Back Cover This volume consists of fifteen of the author's essays, including two that have never been published before. The essays date to the last decade and a half, and all reflect in some manner the author's ongoing interest in literary operations of classification and their social implications, particularly the production of distinctions which create social inequality in the world of the text, and have the potential to generate hierarchical social relationships in contexts where biblical texts might have had an impact on real people. In these essays, the author explores themes such as gender, sexuali |
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| Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| ISBN: | 3647550248 |