Body, Gender and Purity in Leviticus 12 and 15

Dorothea Erbele-Kuster (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2022
T.& T.Clark Ltd (Verlag)
9780567708762 (ISBN)

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Explores the ways in how the male and female body is constructed in Leviticus 12 and 15 and how its reception history unfolds.

The so-called purity laws in Leviticus 11-15 reflect a cultic and social view on 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 like menstruation and circumcision, the author unfolds the language used for the body in Leviticus and its interpretation history. The study provides material for a contemporary anthropology of bodies which relates the human sexed body to God's holiness.

Professor Dorothea Erbele-Küster, PhD, teaches Hebrew and the Hebrew Bible at the Protestant Faculty in Brussels (B) and in Kampen (NL).

Chapter 1: Mapping
Part 1: Exegetical Analysis
Chapter 2; Leviticus 12
Chapter 3: Leviticus 15
Part 2: Biblical Anthropology as Discourse of the Body
Chapter 4: Flesh
Chapter 5: Bodily Fluids
Chapter 6: Menstruation
Chapter 7: The Cultic Perspective
Chapter 8: Prospects
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	25.03.2022
Reihe/Serie	The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-13	9780567708762 / 9780567708762
Zustand	Neuware