Bodies, Embodiment, and Theology of the Hebrew Bible (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780567547996)

Recognizing that human experience is very much influenced by inhabiting bodies, the past decade has seen a surge in studies about representation of bodies in religious experience and human imaginations regarding the Divine. The understanding of embodiment as central to human experience has made a big impact within religious studies particularly in contemporary Christian theology, feminist, cultural and ideological criticism and anthropological approaches to the Hebrew Bible. Within the sub-field of theology of the Hebrew Bible, the conversation is still dominated by assumptions that the God of the Hebrew Bible does not have a body and that embodiment of the divine is a new concept introduced outside of the Hebrew Bible. To a great extent, the insights regarding how body discourse can communicate information have not yet been incorporated into theological studies.

Author: S. Tamar Kamionkowski
ISBN-10: 056754799X
ISBN-13: 9780567547996
Publisher: T&T Clark
Language: English
Published: 05/20/2010
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.90d