Dress Adornment And The Body In The Hebrew Bible

Author : Laura Quick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192598868

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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 : 296 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : Antonios Finitsis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : Angela Roskop Erisman,Kristine Henriksen Garroway,Christine Elizabeth Palmer
Publisher : Hebrew Union College Press
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Laura Quick,Melissa Ramos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567693389

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New Perspectives on Ritual in the Biblical World by Laura Quick,Melissa Ramos Pdf

This volume presents a range of methodologically innovative treatments on ritual action in the Hebrew Bible. They treat a diverse range of ritual phenomena, including space, blessings and oath-taking, from the world of ancient Israel and Judah. The introduction engages with the dominant scholarly models drawn from ritual theory, and the volume explores their applicability to ancient textual material such as the Hebrew Bible. The chapters reflect high-level specialized engagement with specific ritual phenomena through the lens of appropriate theoretical and methodological approaches.

Author : Arthur W. Walker-Jones,Suzanna R. Millar
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781628375923

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Ask the Animals by Arthur W. Walker-Jones,Suzanna R. Millar Pdf

Ask the animals, and they will tell you. Birds, beasts, and creeping things swarm throughout the Bible’s pages. Despite their prevalence, most biblical scholars have viewed them merely as metaphors, passive objects, or background embellishment to the human experience. This collection seeks to move beyond this traditional view of biblical animals by engaging the growing interdisciplinary field of animal studies. Contributors Peter Joshua Atkins, Jared Beverly, William P. Brown, Margaret Cohen, Jacob R. Evers, Michael J. Gilmour, William “Chip” Gruen, Dong Hyeon Jeong, Brian Fiu Kolia, Anne Létourneau, Robert R. MacKay, Suzanna R. Millar, Timothy J. Sandoval, Robert Paul Seesengood, Ken Stone, Brian James Tipton, Arthur W. Walker-Jones, and Jaime L. Waters showcase the breadth and depth of inquiry that animal studies can foster in biblical studies as well as what animal studies can gain from a more rigorous engagement with biblical texts. Together the essays offer an animal hermeneutic that supports the flourishing of all creatures.

Author : Christoph Berner,Manuel Schäfer,Martin Schott,Sarah Schulz,Martina Weingärtner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Natalie Mylonas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567706430

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Jerusalem as Contested Space in Ezekiel by Natalie Mylonas Pdf

Natalie Mylonas uses Ezekiel 16 as a case study in order to reveal the critical relationship between space, emotion, and identity politics in the Hebrew Bible. Drawing on interdisciplinary research that emphasises how space and emotions are inextricably linked in human experience, Mylonas explores the portrayal of Yhwh's wife, Jerusalem, in Ezekiel 16 as a personified city who feels emotion. She foregrounds purity and gender issues, as well as debates on emotions in the Hebrew Bible, emphasising that spatiality is a key component of how these issues are conceptualised in ancient Israel. This book argues that the power struggle between Jerusalem and Yhwh in Ezekiel 16 is a struggle over the contested space of Jerusalem's body and the city space. Jerusalem's emotions are in a dynamic relationship with the spaces in the text – they are signified by these spaces, shift as the constitution of the spaces shifts, and are shaped by Jerusalem's use of space. Her desire, pride, and shamelessness are communicated spatially through her use of city space, while her representation as disgusting is underscored by her “uncontrollable” female body. Mylonas concludes by showing how Ezekiel's vision of the new Jerusalem in Ezekiel 40-48 re-establishes sacred space through the erasure of the feminine city metaphor coupled with strict boundary policing, which is a far cry from the assault on Jerusalem's boundaries described in Ezekiel 16.

Author : Laura Quick,Ekaterina E. Kozlova,Sona Noll,Philip Y. Yoo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0198852673

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To Gaul, to Greece and Into Noah's Ark by Laura Quick,Ekaterina E. Kozlova,Sona Noll,Philip Y. Yoo Pdf

This collection of fifteen essays on biblical and ancient Near Eastern texts, language, and culture is dedicated to Professor Kevin James Cathcart. Contributions to the volume reflect Professor Cathcart's own philological focus and wide-ranging interests in the fields of biblical studies, Semitic philology, and the ancient Near East.

Author : Samuele Bacchiocchi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biblical costume
ISBN : 1930987099

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Christian Dress and Adornment by Samuele Bacchiocchi Pdf

Author : Timothy Ward
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199244383

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Word and Supplement by Timothy Ward Pdf

What are Christians saying when they call the Bible the Word of God? How is that statement to be understood in relation to postmodernity's suspicion of meaning? Word and Supplement tackles these questions by bringing the post-modern theory of Derrida (from whom the idea of "supplement" is borrowed), Barth, Fish, Gadamer, and many others into critical dialogue with the often-neglected doctrine of the sufficiency of Scripture.

Author : Christoph Berner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Bible
ISBN : 0567678504

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Clothing and Nudity in the Hebrew Bible by Christoph Berner Pdf

Author : Athalya Brenner-Idan,Archie C.C. Lee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567671172

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Samuel, Kings and Chronicles I by Athalya Brenner-Idan,Archie C.C. Lee Pdf

In this volume scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social locations are gathered together to bring new or unfamiliar facets of biblical texts to light, focusing on issues of intertextuality. Samuel, Kings and Chronicles I sheds light from new perspectives on themes in these so-called historical books including Asian American and Chinese readings, issues of land, genealogy and maleness. The authors challenge us to consider how we deal with cultural distances between ourselves and these ancient writings - and between one another in the contemporary world. These goal of these essays is de-centre the often homogeneous first-world orientation of much biblical scholarship and open to up new possibilities for discovery of meaning and method.

Author : S. J. Parrott
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Rachel Havrelock
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691235622

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The Joshua Generation by Rachel Havrelock Pdf

"The Joshua Generation examines the book of Joshua's many lives, from its relationship to ancient political forms to the present Israeli Occupation. Its scope encompasses the nationalist celebrations and the stringent critiques of the biblical volume along with their impacts on political discourse and lived space"--