A Question of sex?
Subtitle: gender and difference in the Hebrew Bible and beyond
By: edited by Deborah W. Rooke
Series: Hebrew Bible monographs -- 14; Hebrew Bible monographs -- 14.
Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Sheffield
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781906055936
Subjects: Sex differences; Judaism; Bible; Sex role; Criticism, interpretation; Religious aspects; Sex in the Bible
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Methodological considerations; title: Gender criticism : a new discipline in Biblical Studies or feminism in disguise? / Deborah F. Sawyer; title: Gender in law and ritual; title: The bare facts : gender and nakedness in Leviticus 18 / Deborah W. Rooke; title: Gender critical observations on tripartite breeding relationships in the Hebrew Bible / Bernard S. Jackson; title: Their heart cried out to God : gender and prayer in the book of Lamentations / Amy Kalmanofsky; title: Bathing, status, and gender in priestly ritual / Nicole J. Ruane; title: Ethnological and anthropological approaches to gender; title: Contesting the notion of patriarchy : anthropology and the theorizing of gender in ancient Israel / Carol Meyers; title: The silenced songs of victory : power, gender, and memory in the conquest narrative of Joshua (Joshua 1-12) / Ovidiu Creangă; title: Gender in post-Biblical literature; title: Women in the Apocrypha and the Pseudepigrapha / Tal Ilan; title: From wild men to wise and wicked women : an investigation into male heterosexuality in second temple interpretations of the ladies Wisdom and Folly / Andrew Angel; title: Genizah marriage contracts : contrasting Biblical law and Halakhah with mediaeval practice / Rebecca Jefferson.