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Prophecy and Gender in the Hebrew Bible

Author : L. Juliana Claassens,Irmtraud Fischer
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780884144748

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Prophecy and Gender in the Hebrew Bible by L. Juliana Claassens,Irmtraud Fischer Pdf

Multifaceted insights into female life in prophetic contexts Both prophets and prophetesses shared God’s divine will with the people of Israel, yet the voices of these women were often forgotten due to later prohibitions against women teaching in public. This latest volume of the Bible and Women series focuses on the intersection of gender and prophecy in the Former Prophets (Joshua to 2 Kings) as well as in the Latter Prophets of the Hebrew Bible. Essays examine how women appear in the iconography of the ancient world, the historical background of the phenomenon of prophecy, political and religious resistance by women in the biblical text, and gender symbolism and constructions in prophetic material as well as the metaphorical discourse of God. Contributors Michaela Bauks, Athalya Brenner-Idan, Ora Brison, L. Juliana Claassens, Marta García Fernández, Irmtraud Fischer, Maria Häusl, Rainer Kessler, Nancy C. Lee, Hanne Løland Levinson, Christl M. Maier, Ilse Müllner, Martti Nissinen, Ombretta Pettigiani, Ruth Poser, Benedetta Rossi, Silvia Schroer, and Omer Sergi draw insight into the texts from a range of innovative gender-oriented approaches.

Prophets Male and Female

Author : Anonim
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781589837775

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Because gender is an essential component of societies of all times and places, it is no surprise that every prophetic expression in the ancient social world was a gendered one. In this volume scholars of the biblical literature and of the ancient Mediterranean consider a wide array of prophetic phenomena. In addition to prophetic texts of the Hebrew Bible, the essays also look at prophecy in ancient Mesopotamia and early Christianity. Using the most current theoretical categories, the volume demonstrates how essential a broad definition of gender is for understanding its connection to both the delivery and the content of ancient prophecy. Attention to gender dynamics will continue to reveal the fluidity of prophetic gender performance and to open up the ancient contexts of prophetic texts. The contributors are Roland Boer, Corrine Carvalho, Lester L. Grabbe, Anselm C. Hagedorn, Esther J. Hamori, Dale Launderville, Antti Marjanen, Martti Nissinen, Jonathan Stökl, Hanna Tervanotko, and Ilona Zsolnay.

Are We Not Men?

Author : Rhiannon Graybill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190227364

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Are We Not Men? by Rhiannon Graybill Pdf

'Are We Not Men?' offers an innovative approach to gender and embodiment in the Hebrew Bible. Graybill argues that the male body is a source of difficulty for the Hebrew prophets. This very instability of prophetic masculinity makes possible new understandings of biblical masculinity, as the prophetic body is revealed as a queer body.

Prophecy in the Ancient Near East

Author : Jonathan Stökl
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004229938

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Prophecy in the Ancient Near East by Jonathan Stökl Pdf

Since the 1990s there has been an emphasis on the study of ancient Israelite prophecy in its ancient Near East context. Prophecy in the Ancient Near East is the first book-length study that compares prophecy in the ancient Near East by focusing on texts from Mari, the Neo-Assyrian State Archives, and the Hebrew Bible. The author analyzes prophecy in each culture independently before comparisons are made. This method demonstrates how prophecy is a part of the wider system of divination, but also shows where scholarship has unduly imported concepts found in one corpus to the other two. This method, for example, calls into question the supposed link between music and prophecy from the Hebrew Bible to the ancient Near East. This work provides an up-to-date analysis of ancient Near Eastern, including Israelite and Judean, prophecy to scholars and students alike. "I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book, and I can highly recommend it to anyone interested in prophecy in Israel and the ancient Near East." Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, University of Aberdeen, Review of Biblical Literature "The content of Jonathan Stökl’s book...testifies to the value of the book for the studies of prophecy in the ancient Near East." Wojciech Pikor, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, The Biblical Annals

Feminist Companion to the Latter Prophets

Author : Athalya Brenner
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004-12-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567040305

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Prophetic Rivalry, Gender, and Economics

Author : Olivia Stewart Lester
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161556517

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Prophetic Rivalry, Gender, and Economics by Olivia Stewart Lester Pdf

Olivia Stewart Lester examines true and false prophecy at the intersections of interpretation, gender, and economics in Revelation, Sibylline Oracles 4-5, and contemporary ancient Mediterranean texts. With respect to gender, these texts construct a discourse of divine violence against prophets, in which masculine divine domination of both male and female prophets reinforces the authenticity of the prophetic message. Regarding economics, John and the Jewish sibyllists resist the economic actions of political groups around them, especially Rome, by imagining an alternate universe with a new prophetic economy. In this economy, God requires restitution from human beings, whose evil behavior incurs debt. The ongoing appeal of prophecy as a rhetorical strategy in Revelation and Sibylline Oracles 4-5, and the ongoing rivalries in which these texts engage, argue for prophecy's continuing significance in a larger ancient Mediterranean religious context.

On Reading Prophetic Texts

Author : Dijkstra,Bob Prof. Dr. Becking
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004497931

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On Reading Prophetic Texts by Dijkstra,Bob Prof. Dr. Becking Pdf

The articles in this volume have been written in memory of the feminist biblical scholar, Fokkelien van Dijk-Hemmes, who died at the early age of 50. The authors endeavour to continue and advance the dialogue with her by evaluating and interacting with her scholarly legacy. Their concern is with various aspects of her work on the Hebrew Bible, and they respond in particular to the feminist hermeneutics she developed for reading biblical texts. Several articles test her method in application to specific prophetic texts. Other contributions focus on aspects of the role of women in the cults of Ancient Israel. A third group of essays confronts Fokkelien van Dijk-Hemmes' approach with more traditional ways of biblical interpretation. This book is an important contribution to the ongoing debate on feminist insights into aspects of the literature, culture and religion of Ancient Israel.

Women's Divination in Biblical Literature

Author : Esther J. Hamori
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300213362

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Women's Divination in Biblical Literature by Esther J. Hamori Pdf

Divination, the use of special talents and techniques to gain divine knowledge, was practiced in many different forms in ancient Israel and throughout the ancient world. The Hebrew Bible reveals a variety of traditions of women associated with divination. This sensitive and incisive book by respected scholar Esther J. Hamori examines the wide scope of women’s divinatory activities as portrayed in the Hebrew texts, offering readers a new appreciation of the surprising breadth of women’s “arts of knowledge” in biblical times. Unlike earlier approaches to the subject that have viewed prophecy separately from other forms of divination, Hamori’s study encompasses the full range of divinatory practices and the personages who performed them, from the female prophets and the medium of En-dor to the matriarch who interprets a birth omen and the “wise women” of Tekoa and Abel and more. In doing so, the author brings into clearer focus the complex, rich, and diverse world of ancient Israelite divination.

Gender-Play in the Hebrew Bible

Author : Amy Kalmanofsky
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781315441993

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Gender-Play in the Hebrew Bible by Amy Kalmanofsky Pdf

Though the Hebrew Bible often reflects and constructs a world that privileges men, many of its narratives play extensively with the gender norms of the society in which they were written. Drawing from feminist, masculinity and queer studies, Gender-Play in the Hebrew Bible uses close literary analysis to argue that the writers of the Bible intentionally challenge gender norms in order to reveal the dangers of destabilizing societal and theological hierarchies that privilege men and masculinity. This book presents a fascinating argument about the construction and import of gender in the biblical narratives, and will be of great interest to academics in the fields of religion, theology, and Biblical studies as well as gender studies.

Gender-Play in the Hebrew Bible

Author : Amy Kalmanofsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781315441986

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Gender-Play in the Hebrew Bible by Amy Kalmanofsky Pdf

Though the Hebrew Bible often reflects and constructs a world that privileges men, many of its narratives play extensively with the gender norms of the society in which they were written. Drawing from feminist, masculinity and queer studies, Gender-Play in the Hebrew Bible uses close literary analysis to argue that the writers of the Bible intentionally challenge gender norms in order to reveal the dangers of destabilizing societal and theological hierarchies that privilege men and masculinity. This book presents a fascinating argument about the construction and import of gender in the biblical narratives, and will be of great interest to academics in the fields of religion, theology, and Biblical studies as well as gender studies.

Voices from the University

Author : Heidi Szpek
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780595256198

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In this collection more than twenty student essays and papers are brought together to celebrate the legacy of the Hebrew Bible. Within such diverse disciplines as art, literature, philosophical thought, gender studies, prophecy, the nature of God, mysticism, and the unimaginable domains of the American Frontier and The Jerry Springer Show, the students of Central Washington University have revealed that the sacred literature of the Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament in Christian tradition, has not only imparted its wisdom on the western world of past centuries, but is still a vibrant source of inspiration and knowledge speaking to those within contemporary society.

On Gendering Texts

Author : ʻAtalyā Brenner,Fokkelien van Dijk Hemmes
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004106448

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On Gendering Texts by ʻAtalyā Brenner,Fokkelien van Dijk Hemmes Pdf

"On Gendering Texts" is a wonderful book in a field that demonstrates its maturity by this publication. It discusses the important and traditional issue of authorship. Whereas the idea of a unique and divinely inspired biblical author has long been abandoned, the issue of authorship itself has not. The possibility that women might have contributed to the production of the Bible has not been taken seriously and yet the idea that everything is male unless otherwise proven is hardly acceptable. What can one do? The two authors of this book shrewdly displace the question. Rather than worrying about unprovable historical authors, they consider gender-positions; authority; gendered textuality and attributions of gender within the text; voice; world-view and ideological content. Each of these issues is important, and the gesture of raising them in connection with that of authorship alone makes this book worthwhile. This book is both unique and in line with a growing tradition; a climatic point in the developing area of feminist biblical study. [from the Foreword by Mieke Bal]

Ancient Prophecy

Author : Martti Nissinen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780198808558

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Annotation A study of the phenomenon of prophecy as documented in ancient Near Eastern texts and the Hebrew Bible as well as Greek sources, from the twenty-first century BCE to the second century CE.

Prophecy and the Prophets in Ancient Israel

Author : Oxford Old Testament Seminar
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567473646

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Prophecy and the Prophets in Ancient Israel by Oxford Old Testament Seminar Pdf

This important work on Prophecy and the Prophets in Ancient Israel is the product of an impressive international team of twenty-three outstanding scholars, most of whom are well-known, established names, while a few are able, younger scholars beginning to make their mark on the field. The volume approaches its subject from a remarkable number of different angles, with essays ranging from Israel's ancient Near Eastern background right through to the New Testament, but the majority of essays concentrate on Prophecy and the Prophets in the Old Testament. Particular attention is paid to the following subjects: Prophecy amongst Israel's Ancient Near Eastern Neighbours; Female Prophets in both Israel and the Ancient Near East; Israelite Prophecy in the Light of modern Sociological, Anthropological and Psychological Insights; Deuteronomy 18.9-22, the Prophets and Scripture; Elijah, Elisha and Prophetic Succession; the Theology of Amos; Hosea and the Baal cu All the contributions, previously unpublished, arise from papers delivered at the Oxford Old Testament seminar.

The Bible and Women: 3. Prophets

Author : Irmtraud Fischer
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Bible
ISBN : 1589835654

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