RT Book
T1 Dress, adornment and the body in the Hebrew Bible
A1 Quick, Laura 1987-
LA English
PP Oxford
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/173525942X
AB "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. Beyond merely filling a gap in scholarship, the book 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. I explore 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, I reconstruct the social meanings attached to the dressed body in biblical texts. I show how body adornment can deepen our understanding of attitudes towards the self in the ancient world. In my 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"--
NO Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 187-213
SN 9780191889967
SN 9780198856818
K1 Bible : Old Testament : Criticism, interpretation, etc
K1 Biblical costume
K1 Clothing and dress : History : Middle East
DO 10.1093/oso/9780198856818.001.0001