My brother Esau is a hairy man
Subtitle: hair and identity in ancient Israel
By: Susan Niditch.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9780195181142
Subjects: Hair -- Religious aspects -- Judaism; Hair -- Social aspects
Description: 159 pages : 25 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-150) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Hair in material culture and art of the ancient Near East; title: Samson : maleness, charisma, warrior status, and hair; title: Nazirite vow : domesticating charisma and recontextualizing hair; title: Absent hair; title: Letting down her hair or cutting it off : the ritual trial of a woman accused of adultery and the transformation of the female other.