Embroidered garments
Subtitle: priests and gender in biblical Israel
By: edited by Deborah W. Rooke
Series: Hebrew Bible monographs -- 25; King's College London studies in the Bible and gender -- 2; Hebrew Bible monographs -- 25.; King's College London studies in the Bible and gender -- 2.
Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Sheffield
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9781906055776
Subjects: Religious aspects; Geschlechterrolle; Biblische Theologie; Bibel; Criticism, interpretation; Geschlechtsunterschied; Congresses; Jewish Priests; Frau; Bible; Priester; Geschlecht; Sex role; Altes Testament; Women in the Bible
Notes: "The papers in this volume were all presented at a conference held at King's College London on 4-6 August 2008"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: pt. I. Gendering priestly personnel. Gender in prophecy, magic and priesthood : from Sumer to ancient Israel / Athalya Brenner; title: Breeches of the covenant : gender, garments and the priesthood / Deborah W. Rooke; title: pt. II. Evidence and absence : priestly pictures of men and women. Gender matters : priestly writing on impurity / Tarja Philip; title: Gender and ambiguity in the Genesis genealogies : tracing absence and subversion through the lens of Derrida's Archive fever / Ingeborg Löwisch; title: Genealogy, gynecology, and gender : the priestly writer's portrait of a woman / Elizabeth Goldstein; title: pt. III. Numbering the people : women and the priestly nation. Outside the lines : the place of women in priestly nationalism / Rachel Havrelock; title: Feeding the green-eyed monster : bitter waters, flood waters, and the theology of exile / Diana Lipton; title: The problem with sisters : anthropological perspectives on priestly kinship ideology in Numbers / Claudia V. Camp; title: Miriam's mistake : Numbers 12 renarrated in Demetrius the Chronographer, 4Q377 (Apocryphal Pentateuch B), Legum allegoriae and the Pentateuchal Targumim / Hanna Tervanotko; title: pt. IV. Priests of human (woman) sacrifice. Father and daughters : the Jephthah issue and the scream / Alicia Ostriker.