Body, gender and purity in Leviticus 12 and 15:

"The so-called purity laws in Leviticus 11-15 reflect a cultic and social view of 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 partic...

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1. Verfasser: Erbele-Küster, Dorothea 1969- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Bloomsbury T & T Clark 2017
Schriftenreihe:Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies 539
Schlagworte:
Zusammenfassung:"The so-called purity laws in Leviticus 11-15 reflect a cultic and social view of 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 such as menstruation and circumcision, Erbele-Kuester unfolds the language used for the body in Leviticus and its interpretation history. Her study provides material for a contemporary anthropology of bodies which relates the human sexed body to God's holiness"--
Beschreibung:xiii, 186 Seiten 25 cm
ISBN:9780567246561
0567246566

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