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Religion and female body in ancient Judaism and its environments / edited by Géza G. Xeravits.

Contributor(s): Xeravits, Géza G [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Deuterocanonical and cognate literature studies: v. 28.Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: viii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783110406535; 3110406535Subject(s): Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Congresses | Bible. New Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Congresses | Women in the Bible -- Congresses | Human body in the Bible -- Congresses | Middle Eastern literature -- History and criticism -- CongressesDDC classification: 220.8/3054 LOC classification: BS575 | .R45 2015Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The voices of Ištar : prophetesses and female ecstatics in the neo-Assyrian empire / Réka Esztári and Ádám Vér -- The female body in Israel and Judah before the exile / Miklós Kőszeghy -- Menstruation and impurity : regular abstention from the cult according to Leviticus 15:19-24 and some examples for the reception of the biblical text in early Judaism / Thomas Hieke -- "She undid him with the beauty of her face" (Jdt 16.6) : reading women's bodies in early Jewish literature / Benjamin G. Wright and Suzanne M. Edwards -- The female body in Second Temple literature / Ida Frölich -- The personification of wisdom and folly as women in ancient Judaism / Matthew Goff -- "Pillars of gold on a silver base" : female beauty as the cause of anxiety and praise in the book of Ben Sira: reading women's bodies in early Jewish literature / Ibolya Balla -- Women's roles in the narrative and theology of the book of Tobit / Karin Schöpflin -- Judith as a female David : beauty and body in religious context / József Zsengellér -- Female imagery in the book of Revelation / Hanna Stenström -- Female body? : footnotes on the theology of the first woman's birth stories in the Gnostic tractates from Nag Hammadi / Csaba Ötvös -- The city without women : approaches to the female in early monastic literature / Gáspár Parlagi.

"This volume publishes papers read at the ninth International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, Budapest, 2012."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The voices of Ištar : prophetesses and female ecstatics in the neo-Assyrian empire / Réka Esztári and Ádám Vér -- The female body in Israel and Judah before the exile / Miklós Kőszeghy -- Menstruation and impurity : regular abstention from the cult according to Leviticus 15:19-24 and some examples for the reception of the biblical text in early Judaism / Thomas Hieke -- "She undid him with the beauty of her face" (Jdt 16.6) : reading women's bodies in early Jewish literature / Benjamin G. Wright and Suzanne M. Edwards -- The female body in Second Temple literature / Ida Frölich -- The personification of wisdom and folly as women in ancient Judaism / Matthew Goff -- "Pillars of gold on a silver base" : female beauty as the cause of anxiety and praise in the book of Ben Sira: reading women's bodies in early Jewish literature / Ibolya Balla -- Women's roles in the narrative and theology of the book of Tobit / Karin Schöpflin -- Judith as a female David : beauty and body in religious context / József Zsengellér -- Female imagery in the book of Revelation / Hanna Stenström -- Female body? : footnotes on the theology of the first woman's birth stories in the Gnostic tractates from Nag Hammadi / Csaba Ötvös -- The city without women : approaches to the female in early monastic literature / Gáspár Parlagi.

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