Clothing And Nudity In The Hebrew Bible

Author : Christoph Berner,Manuel Schäfer,Martin Schott,Sarah Schulz,Martina Weingärtner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567678485

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Clothing and Nudity in the Hebrew Bible by Christoph Berner,Manuel Schäfer,Martin Schott,Sarah Schulz,Martina Weingärtner Pdf

The volume discusses nudity and clothing in the Hebrew Bible, covering anthropological, theological, archaeology and religious-historical aspects. These aspects are addressed in three separate sections, enhanced by over a hundred pictures and illustrations. Part I places nudity and clothing in its ancient Israelite context, with discussions of methodology, the ancient Near Eastern evidence (including material culture and iconography), and an assessment of central aspects of the biblical material such as fabrication and uses of textiles, lexicography, theological and anthropological implications. Part II looks at key themes such as mourning, death, encounters with the divine and issues of power and status. Finally, Part III presents several close studies of key passages from narrative, prophetic and wisdom texts where clothing and nudity play an important role.

Author : Christoph Berner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Bible
ISBN : 0567678504

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Clothing and Nudity in the Hebrew Bible by Christoph Berner Pdf

Author : Antonios Finitsis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-19
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780567702692

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Dress Hermeneutics and the Hebrew Bible by Antonios Finitsis Pdf

Antonios Finitsis and contributors continue their examination of dress and clothing in the Hebrew Bible in this collection of illuminating essays. Straddling the divide between the material and the ideological, this book lends shape and texture to topics including social standing, agency, and the motif of cloth and clothing in Esther. Essays also explore the function of dress metaphors in imprecatory Psalms, the symbolic function of headdresses, and the divine clothing of Adam and Eve and the hermeneutics of trauma recovery. Together, the contributors continue to shape scholarly discourse on a growing body of scholarship on dress in the Bible. By turning their analytical gaze to this primary evidence, the contributors are able to reveal the social, psychological, aesthetic, ideological and symbolic meanings of dress in the Hebrew Bible, thereby producing insights into the literature and cultural world of the ancient Near East.

Author : Laura Quick
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198856818

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Dress, Adornment, and the Body in the Hebrew Bible by Laura Quick Pdf

Dress, Adornment, and the Body in the Hebrew Bible is the first monograph to treat dress and adornment in biblical literature in the English language. It moves beyond a description of these aspects of ancient life to encompass notions of interpersonal relationships and personhood that underpin practices of dress and adornment. Laura Quick explores the ramifications of body adornment in the biblical world, informed by a methodologically plural approach incorporating material culture alongside philology, textual exegesis, comparative evidence, and sociological models. Drawing upon and synthesizing insights from material culture and texts from across the eastern Mediterranean, the volume reconstructs the social meanings attached to the dressed body in biblical texts. It shows how body adornment can deepen understanding of attitudes towards the self in the ancient world. In Quick's reconstruction of ancient performances of the self, the body serves as the observed centre in which complex ideologies of identity, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and social status are articulated. The adornment of the body is thus an effective means of non-verbal communication, but one which at the same time is controlled by and dictated through normative social values. Exploring dress, adornment, and the body can therefore open up hitherto unexplored perspectives on these social values in the ancient world, an essential missing piece in understanding the social and cultural world which shaped the Hebrew Bible.

Author : Antonios Finitsis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567686411

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Dress and Clothing in the Hebrew Bible by Antonios Finitsis Pdf

Built upon the flourishing study of costume, this book analyses sartorial evidence provided both by texts of the ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible. The essays within lend clarity to the link between material and ideological, examining the tradition of dress, the different types of literature that reference the tradition of garments, and the people for whom such literature was written. The contributors explore sources that illuminate the social, psychological, aesthetic, ideological and symbolic meanings of clothing. The topics covered range from the relationship between clothing, kingship and power, to the symbolic significance of the high priestly regalia and the concept of garments as deception and defiance, while also considering the tendency to omit or ignore descriptions of YHWH's clothing. Following a historical sequence, the essays cross-reference with each other to create a milestone in biblical sartorial study.

Author : Alicia J. Batten,Kelly Olson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567684684

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Dress in Mediterranean Antiquity by Alicia J. Batten,Kelly Olson Pdf

Insights from anthropology, religious studies, biblical studies, sociology, classics, and Jewish studies are here combined to provide a cutting-edge guide to dress and religion in the Greco-Roman World and the Mediterranean basin. Clothing, jewellery, cosmetics, and hairstyles are among the many aspects examined to show the variety of functions of dress in communication and in both establishing and defending identity. The volume begins by reviewing how scholars in the fields of classics, anthropology, religious studies, and sociology examine dress. The second section then looks at materials, including depictions of clothing in sculpture and in Egyptian mummy portraits. The third (and largest) part of the book then examines dress in specific contexts, beginning with Greece and Rome and going on to Jewish and Christian dress, with a specific focus on the intersection between dress, clothing and religion. By combining essays from over twenty scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds, the book provides a unique overview of different approaches to and contexts of dress in one volume, leading to a greater understanding of dress both within ancient societies and in the contemporary world.

Author : Alicia J. Batten
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780884144885

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Review of Biblical Literature, 2020 by Alicia J. Batten Pdf

The annual Review of Biblical Literature presents a selection of reviews of the most recent books in biblical studies and related fields, including topical monographs, multi-author volumes, reference works, commentaries, and dictionaries. RBL reviews German, French, Italian, and English books and offers reviews in those languages. Features: Reviews of new books written by top scholars Topical divisions make research easy Indexes of authors and editors, reviewers, and publishers

Author : S. J. Parrott
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9789004677456

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The Conceptualization of Dress in Prophetic Metaphors by S. J. Parrott Pdf

Jerusalem/Zion's metaphoric investiture/divestiture of dress is a central force to create new perspectives on reality and of a nation's selfhood in contexts of suffering and destruction, making dress in prophetic metaphors a crucial means of communication and perception management.

Author : Angela Roskop Erisman,Kristine Henriksen Garroway,Christine Elizabeth Palmer
Publisher : Hebrew Union College Press
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780878207053

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The Body by Angela Roskop Erisman,Kristine Henriksen Garroway,Christine Elizabeth Palmer Pdf

The clothed and adorned body has been at the forefront of Nili S. Fox's scholarship. In her hallmark approach, she draws on theoretical models from anthropology and archaeology, and locates the text within its native cultural environment in conversation with ancient Near Eastern literary and iconographic sources. This volume is a tribute to her, a collection of essays on dress and the body with original research by Fox's students. With the field of dress now garnering the attention of biblical and Ancient Near Eastern scholars alike, this book adds to the growing literature on the topic, demonstrating ways in which both dress and the body communicate cultural and religious beliefs and practices. The body's lived experience is the topic of section one, the body lived. The body and the social construction of identity is discussed in section two, the body cultured, while section three, the body adorned, analyzes the performative nature of dress in the biblical text.

Author : Antonios Finitsis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567689764

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Dress and Clothing in the Hebrew Bible by Antonios Finitsis Pdf

Built upon the flourishing study of costume, this book analyses sartorial evidence provided both by texts of the ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible. The essays within lend clarity to the link between material and ideological, examining the tradition of dress, the different types of literature that reference the tradition of garments, and the people for whom such literature was written. The contributors explore sources that illuminate the social, psychological, aesthetic, ideological and symbolic meanings of clothing. The topics covered range from the relationship between clothing, kingship and power, to the symbolic significance of the high priestly regalia and the concept of garments as deception and defiance, while also considering the tendency to omit or ignore descriptions of YHWH's clothing. Following a historical sequence, the essays cross-reference with each other to create a milestone in biblical sartorial study.

Author : Francesca Stavrakopoulou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567699312

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Life and Death by Francesca Stavrakopoulou Pdf

Life and Death: Social Perspectives on Biblical Bodies explores some of the social, material, and ideological dynamics shaping life and death in both the Hebrew Bible and ancient Israel and Judah. Analysing topics ranging from the bodily realities of gestation, subsistence, and death, and embodied performances of gender, power, and status, to the imagined realities of post-mortem and divine existence, the essays in this volume offer exciting new trajectories in our understanding of the ways in which embodiment played out in the societies in which the texts of the Hebrew Bible emerged.

Author : Eric Silverman
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781847882868

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A Cultural History of Jewish Dress by Eric Silverman Pdf

A Cultural History of Jewish Dress is the first comprehensive account of Jewish clothing, both profane and sacred, from its origins through to the present day. Fascinating and accessibly written, it will appeal to anybody with an interest in the central role of clothing in defining Jewish identity.

Author : Jim C. Cunningham
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-29
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781463450946

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Nudity and Christianity by Jim C. Cunningham Pdf

Jim C. Cunningham considers his latest 588-page work, Nudity & Christianity, to be his "magnum opus." It represents the fruit of thirty years of research, meditation, discussion and many personal experiences. Though much of the material is new, Jim has included the best of his twenty-three years of naturist publishing. Although all of his previous publications (see naturistlife.com) were highly photographic, this latest is 100% textual, in hopes of reaching those who might be intimidated even by tasteful graphics. The insightful ideas of dozens of authors from various denominations are represented here, from Pope John Paul II to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, C.S. Lewis to Kahlil Gibran and even Mark Twain. The purpose of this book is to encourage readers to probe the reasons for wearing clothes. Today, Western convention tends to assume that "nude is lewd," but it was not always that way. For half the Church's history, catechumens--men, women, boys and girls, were routinely baptized together, nude, by full immersion. Today, we recoil at learning this, but how have cultural attitudes toward the body changed to effect this reaction? Jim asks those hard questions about the body and the meaning of true modesty, and exhorts Christians to lead the way in asserting God's definition of the body, rather than Playboy's. Instead of allowing pornographers to define the body for us, and then create a virtue of modesty to fit that false definition, Christians should assert God's definition as found in Scripture and Church Tradition. When we view the body as Jesus did, our definition of modesty becomes radically different from what is conventionally presumed. Two highly detailed indices (Scriptural and Topical) make this an excellent reference book. Readers are exhorted to live what they learn. Jim proposes attending "Theology of the Body Retreats." For more information go to JIMCCUNNINGHAM.COM.

Author : Lynda L. Coon
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812201673

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Sacred Fictions by Lynda L. Coon Pdf

Late antique and early medieval hagiographic texts present holy women as simultaneously pious and corrupt, hideous and beautiful, exemplars of depravity and models of sanctity. In Sacred Fictions Lynda Coon unpacks these paradoxical representations to reveal the construction and circumscription of women's roles in the early Christian centuries. Coon discerns three distinct paradigms for female sanctity in saints' lives and patristic and monastic writings. Women are recurrently figured as repentant desert hermits, wealthy widows, or cloistered ascetic nuns, and biblical discourse informs the narrative content, rhetorical strategies, and symbolic meanings of these texts in complex and multivalent ways. If hagiographers made their women saints walk on water, resurrect the dead, or consecrate the Eucharist, they also curbed the power of women by teaching that the daughters of Eve must make their bodies impenetrable through militant chastity or spiritual exile and must eradicate self-indulgence through ascetic attire or philanthropy. The windows the sacred fiction of holy women open on the past are far from transparent; driven by both literary invention and moral imperative, the stories they tell helped shape Western gender constructs that have survived into modern times.

Author : Dr. Norman J. Cohen
Publisher : Jewish Lights Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781580238397

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Masking and Unmasking Ourselves by Dr. Norman J. Cohen Pdf

Presents Bible stories that involve clothing in an essential way as a means of learning about the text, its characters and their interactions. Uses the garments of the Bible to show us how to shed our own layers of covering and reveal our authentic selves.