Body, Gender and Purity in Leviticus 12 and 15 by Erbele-Küster, Dorothea

Body, Gender and Purity in Leviticus 12 and 15 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780567708762)

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Body, Gender and Purity in Leviticus 12 and 15 by Erbele-Küster, Dorothea

Body, Gender and Purity in Leviticus 12 and 15

$40.95
Body, Gender and Purity in Leviticus 12 and 15 by Erbele-Küster, Dorothea

Body, Gender and Purity in Leviticus 12 and 15

$40.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Dorothea Erbele-K?ter
ISBN-10: 0567708764
ISBN-13: 9780567708762
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 08/25/2022
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.43d
By Dorothea Erbele-K?ter
By Dorothea Erbele-K?ter
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Dorothea Erbele-Kuester teaches Hebrew and the Hebrew Bible at the Protestant Faculty in Brussels, Belgium, and in Kampen, the Netherlands.

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