RT Book
T1 Social Inequality in the World of the Text: The Significance of Ritual and Social Distinctions in the Hebrew Bible
T2 Journal of Ancient Judaism. Supplements
T2 EBL-Schweitzer
A1 Olyan, Saul M. 1959-
LA English
PB Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
YR 2011
ED Online-Ausg.
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1656556898
AB Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Introduction; Section 1: Rites and Social Status ; Introduction; Honor, Shame and Covenant Relations in Ancient Israel and Its Environment; What Do Shaving Rites Accomplish and What Do They Signal in Biblical Ritual Contexts?; Section 2: Gender and Sexuality ; Introduction; "And with a Male You Shall Not Lie the Lying Down of a Woman": On the Meaning and Significance of Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13; "Surpassing the Love of Women": Another Look at 2 Sam 1: and the Relationship of David and Jonathan
AB Occasionally Beyond Gender: The Rhetoric of Familial Nurture in Discourses of West Asian Kings and their AgentsSection 3: Disability ; Introduction; "Anyone Blind or Lame Shall Not Enter the House": On the Interpretation of 2 Samuel 5:8b; The Exegetical Dimensions of Restrictions on the Blind and the Lame in Texts from Qumran;  The Ascription of Physical Disability as a Stigmatizing Strategy in Biblical Iconic Polemics ; Section 4: Holiness, Purity, and the Alien ; Introduction; Purity Ideology in Ezra-Nehemiah as a Tool to Reconstitute the Community
AB "Sie sollen nicht in die Gemeinde des Herrn kommen": Aspekte gesellschaftlicher Inklusion und Exklusion in Dtn 23,4-9 und seine frühen AuslegungenMary Douglas's Holiness/Wholeness Paradigm: Its Potential for Insight and its Limitations; Section 5: Death, Burial, Afterlife, and their Metaphorical Uses ; Introduction; Unnoticed Resonances of Tomb Opening and Transportation of the Remains of the Dead in Ezekiel 37:12-14; Was the "King of Babylon" Buried Before His Corpse Was Exposed? Some Thoughts on Isa 14:19; Some Neglected Aspects of Israelite Interment Ideology ; Back Cover
AB This volume consists of fifteen of the author's essays, including two that have never been published before. The essays date to the last decade and a half, and all reflect in some manner the author's ongoing interest in literary operations of classification and their social implications, particularly the production of distinctions which create social inequality in the world of the text, and have the potential to generate hierarchical social relationships in contexts where biblical texts might have had an impact on real people. In these essays, the author explores themes such as gender, sexuali
NO Description based upon print version of record
CN BF34
SN 9783647550244
K1 Bible. O.T
K1 Bible. O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
K1 Equality -- Biblical teaching
K1 Rites and ceremonies in the Bible
K1 Sociology, Biblical
K1 Electronic books
K1 Aufsatzsammlung