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Body, Gender and Purity in Leviticus 12 and 15
Dorothea Erbele-Kuster
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Description for Body, Gender and Purity in Leviticus 12 and 15
Hardback. Explores the ways in how the male and female body is constructed in Leviticus 12 and 15 and how its reception history unfolds. Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HRCF1; HRCG; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 507.
The so-called purity laws in Leviticus 11-15 reflect a cultic and social view of the male and female body. These texts do not give detailed physiological descriptions. Instead, they prescribe what to do in the cases of skin disease, delivery and wo/man's genital discharges, but the particular way of dealing with the body and the language used in Leviticus 12 and 15 ask for clarification: how do these texts construct the male and female body? Which roles does gender play within this language? By means of themes such as menstruation and circumcision, Erbele-Kuester unfolds the language ... Read more
The so-called purity laws in Leviticus 11-15 reflect a cultic and social view of the male and female body. These texts do not give detailed physiological descriptions. Instead, they prescribe what to do in the cases of skin disease, delivery and wo/man's genital discharges, but the particular way of dealing with the body and the language used in Leviticus 12 and 15 ask for clarification: how do these texts construct the male and female body? Which roles does gender play within this language? By means of themes such as menstruation and circumcision, Erbele-Kuester unfolds the language ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780567246561
SKU
V9780567246561
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About Dorothea Erbele-Kuster
Dorothea Erbele-Kuester teaches Hebrew and the Hebrew Bible at the Protestant Faculty in Brussels, Belgium, and in Kampen, the Netherlands.
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