Title: Religion and female body in ancient Judaism and its environments /
Authors: Xeravits, Géza G.,
Year: 2015
Subjects: Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Congresses.; Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Congresses.; Women in the Bible Congresses.; Human body in the Bible Congresses.; Middle Eastern literature History and criticism Congresses.; Frühjudentum.; Frau; Literatur; Körper; Leiblichkeit.; Gnosis.; Alter Orient
Abstract: "This volume publishes papers read at the ninth International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, Budapest, 2012. The authors explore various aspects of manifestations of the female principle within the literature of the Ancient Near East, Early Judaism, and the nascent Christianity"--
Contents: Mesopotamia -- The voices of Ištar : prophetesses and female ecstatics in the neo-Assyrian empire / Réka Esztári and Ádám Vér -- Hebrew Bible and its environments -- The female body in Israel and Judah before the exile / Miklós Kőszeghy -- Menstruation and impurity : regular abstention from the cult according to Leviticus 15:19-24 and some examples for the reception of the biblical text in early Judaism / Thoams Hieke -- Early Judaism -- "She undid him with the beauty of her face" (Jdt 16.6) : reading women's bodies in early Jewish literature / Benjamin G. Wright and Suzanne M. Edwards -- The female body in Second Temple literature / Ida Frölich -- The personification of wisdom and folly as women in ancient Judaism / Matthew Goff -- "Pillars of gold on a silver base" : female beauty as the cause of anxiety and praise in the book of Ben Sira / Ibolya Balla -- Women's roles in the narrative and theology of the book of Tobit / Karin Schöpflin -- Judith as a female David : beauty and body in religious context / József Zsengellér -- Christianity and Gnosticism -- Female imagery in the book of Revelation / Hanna Stenström -- Female body? : footnotes on the theology of the first woman's birth stories in the Gnostic tractates from Nag Hammadi / Csaba Ötvös -- The city without(?) women : approaches to the female in early monastic literature / Gáspár Parlagi.