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Religion and Female Body in Ancient Judaism and Its Environments

By Geza G. Xeravits

Book information

Publisher
Walter de Gruyter
Year
2015
ISBN
3110406535, 9783110406535
ISSN
1865-1666
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3061276 bytes)
Series
Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies 28
Pages
viii+270\279
Topic
Religion
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2016-05-01 17:06:23
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Description

The volume publishes papers read at the ninth International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, Budapest, 2012. The title of the conference and the issuing volume covers an, on the one hand, extremely important and, on the other hand, regrettably neglected aspect particularly of the ancient Jewish and Christian traditions. Traditional manifestations of both Judaism and Christianity are predominantly masculine theological constructions. Despite their harsh masculine orientation, however, neither Judaism nor Christianity lacks elaboration on the female principle. When an ancient author chooses female imagery in order to make his message more emphatic, the female body as such forms an integral part of their metaphors. The contributions in this volume explore this phenomenon within the literature of early Judaism, and within its broad environments.

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