Giving Birth to Knowledge: Creativity and Procreativity in Biblical Texts
This essay examines instances in the Hebrew Bible in which language of the womb and birth are used as metaphors for human intellective creativity. Informed by Christine Battersby’s classic work in feminist aesthetics, it argues that the female somatics of birth provides a conceptual motif for the cu...
Κύριος συγγραφέας: | |
---|---|
Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
Έλεγχος διαθεσιμότητας: | HBZ Gateway |
Journals Online & Print: | |
Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
Έκδοση: |
Peeters
2023
|
Στο/Στη: |
Biblica
Έτος: 2023, Τόμος: 104, Τεύχος: 2, Σελίδες: 195-217 |
Διαθέσιμο Online: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
Σύνοψη: | This essay examines instances in the Hebrew Bible in which language of the womb and birth are used as metaphors for human intellective creativity. Informed by Christine Battersby’s classic work in feminist aesthetics, it argues that the female somatics of birth provides a conceptual motif for the cultural complex of human making, especially in moral censure, aesthetic contexts, and prophecy. After establishing the parameters of the metaphor, the essay reads Proverbs 8 with Hannah Arendt’s concept of 'natality', arguing that this poem about primordial wisdom offers a meditation on the emergence of thought itself. |
---|---|
ISSN: | 2385-2062 |
Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Biblica
|
Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/BIB.104.2.3292024 |