The body in biblical, Christian and Jewish texts
By: edited by Joan E. Taylor
Series: Library of Second Temple studies -- 85; T & T Clark library of biblical studies; Library of Second Temple studies -- 85.; T & T Clark library of biblical studies
Publisher: Bloomsbury T & T Clark
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780567254269; 9780567312228
Subjects: Judaism; Frühjudentum; Literatur; Human body in the Bible; Christianity; Bibel; Körper; Human body; Frühchristentum
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-249) and indexes.

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Table of contents: title: The body inscribed: a priestly initiative?  -- Sandra Jacobs; title: Queering the body: un-desiring sex in Leviticus  -- Steffan Mathias; title: Ritualized bodies in the valley of dry bones (Ezekiel 37.1-14)  -- C.A. Strine; title: "Two by two": the ark-etypal language of Mark's apostolic pairings  -- Joan E. Taylor; title: Jesus' Gentile healings: the absence of bodily contact and the requirement of faith  -- Rebecca Harrocks; title: Jewish blessing or Thyestean banquet?: the eucharist and its origins  -- Katie Turner; title: "How are the dead raised?": the bodily nature of resurrection in Second Temple Jewish texts  -- Daniel W. Hayter; title: Flesh for Franken-whore: reading Babylon's body in Revelation 17  -- Michelle Fletcher; title: Can a body change?: Josephus's attitude to circumcision and conversion  -- Davina Grojnowski; title: The Acts of Paul and Thecla: violating the inviolate body: Thecla uncut  -- Rosie Ratcliffe; title: The fire and the flesh: self-destruction of the male rabbinic body -- Laliv Clenman.