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A question of sex? : gender and difference in the Hebrew Bible and beyond / edited by Deborah W. Rooke.

Contributor(s): Rooke, Deborah W
Material type: TextTextSeries: Hebrew Bible monographs: 14.Publisher: Sheffield, England : Sheffield Phoenix Press, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: x, 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1906055203 (alk. paper); 9781906055202 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Sex role -- Religious aspectsBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Gender criticism : a new discipline in Biblical Studies or feminism in disguise? / Deborah F. Sawyer -- The bare facts : gender and nakedness in Leviticus 18 / Deborah W. Rooke -- Gender critical observations on tripartite breeding relationships in the Hebrew Bible / Bernard S. Jackson -- Their heart cried out to God : gender and prayer in the book of Lamentations / Amy Kalmanofsky -- Bathing, status, and gender in priestly ritual / Nicole J. Ruane -- Contesting the notion of patriarchy : anthropology and the theorizing of gender in ancient Israel / Carol Meyers -- The silenced songs of victory : power, gender, and memory in the conquest narrative of Joshua (Joshua 1-12) / Ovidiu Creangă -- Women in the Apocrypha and the Pseudepigrapha / Tal Ilan -- From wild men to wise and wicked women : an investigation into male heterosexuality in Second Temple interpretations of the ladies Wisdom and Folly / Andrew Angel -- Genizah marriage contracts : contrasting Biblical law and Halakhah with mediaeval practice / Rebecca Jefferson.
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 East BS1199 .S45 R66 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903121701

Papers emerged from "A Question of Sex? Gender and Difference" conference held 31 July-2 August, 2006 at King's College in London.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Gender criticism : a new discipline in Biblical Studies or feminism in disguise? / Deborah F. Sawyer -- The bare facts : gender and nakedness in Leviticus 18 / Deborah W. Rooke -- Gender critical observations on tripartite breeding relationships in the Hebrew Bible / Bernard S. Jackson -- Their heart cried out to God : gender and prayer in the book of Lamentations / Amy Kalmanofsky -- Bathing, status, and gender in priestly ritual / Nicole J. Ruane -- Contesting the notion of patriarchy : anthropology and the theorizing of gender in ancient Israel / Carol Meyers -- The silenced songs of victory : power, gender, and memory in the conquest narrative of Joshua (Joshua 1-12) / Ovidiu Creangă -- Women in the Apocrypha and the Pseudepigrapha / Tal Ilan -- From wild men to wise and wicked women : an investigation into male heterosexuality in Second Temple interpretations of the ladies Wisdom and Folly / Andrew Angel -- Genizah marriage contracts : contrasting Biblical law and Halakhah with mediaeval practice / Rebecca Jefferson.

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