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

Body, Gender and Purity in Leviticus 12 and 15 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780567246561)

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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

$150.00
Body, Gender and Purity in Leviticus 12 and 15 by Erbele-Küster, Dorothea

Body, Gender and Purity in Leviticus 12 and 15

$150.00
Format: Hardcover
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The so-called purity laws in Leviticus 11-15 reflect a cultic and social view on 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 like menstruation and circumcision, the author unfolds the language used for the body in Leviticus and its interpretation history. The study provides material for a contemporary anthropology of bodies which relates the human sexed body to God's holiness.

Author: Dorothea Erbele-Küster
ISBN-10: 0567246566
ISBN-13: 9780567246561
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 08/10/2017
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d
By Dorothea Erbele-Küster
By Dorothea Erbele-Küster
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Professor Dorothea Erbele-Küster, PhD, teaches Hebrew and the Hebrew Bible at the Protestant Faculty in Brussels (B) and in Kampen (NL).

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