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The Body in Biblical, Christian and Jewish Texts
About this book
The body is an entity on which religious ideology is printed. Thus it is frequently a subject of interest, anxiety, prescription and regulation in both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, as well as in early Christian and Jewish writings. Issues such as the body's age, purity, sickness, ability, gender, sexual actions, marking, clothing, modesty or placement can revolve around what the body is and is not supposed to be or do. The Body in Biblical, Christian and Jewish Texts comprises a range of inter-disciplinary and creative explorations of the body as it is described and defined in religious literature, with chapters largely written by new scholars with fresh perspectives. This is a subject with wide and important repercussions in diverse cultural contexts today.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- 1. The Body Inscribed: A Priestly Initiative?
- 2. Queering the Body: Un-desiring Sex in Leviticus
- 3. Ritualized Bodies in the Valley of Dry Bones (Ezekiel 37.1-14)
- 4. âTwo by Twoâ: The Ark-Etypal Language of Markâs Apostolic Pairings
- 5. Jesusâ Gentile Healings: The Absence of Bodily Contact and the Requirement of Faith
- 6. Jewish Blessing or Thyestean Banquet? The Eucharist and its Origins
- 7. âHow are the Dead Raised?â: The Bodily Nature of Resurrection in Second Temple Jewish Texts
- 8. Flesh for Franken-Whore: Reading Babylonâs Body in Revelation 17
- 9. Can a Body Change? Josephusâs Attitude to Circumcision and Conversion
- 10. The Acts of Paul and Thecla: Violating the Inviolate BodyâThecla Uncut
- 11. The Fire and the Flesh: Self-Destruction of the Male Rabbinic Body
- Bibliography
- Index of References
- Index of Authors
- Index of Subjects