Body, gender and purity in Leviticus 12 and 15 / Dorothea Erbele-Küster

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Erbele-Küster, Dorothea, 1969- [Browse]
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English
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  • London : Bloomsbury T & T Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
  • ©2017
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xiii, 186 pages ; 25 cm.

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    "The so-called purity laws in Leviticus 11-15 reflect a cultic and social view of the male and female body. These texts do not give detailed physiological descriptions. Instead, they prescribe what to do in the cases of skin disease, delivery and woman's genital discharges, but the particular way of dealing with the body and the language used in Leviticus 12 and 15 ask for clarification: how do these texts construct the male and female body? Which roles does gender play within this language? By means of themes such as menstruation and circumcision, Erbele-Kuester unfolds the language used for the body in Leviticus and its interpretation history. Her study provides material for a contemporary anthropology of bodies which relates the human sexed body to God's holiness"-- Publisher's website.
    Notes
    • 1st edition published in German (Neukirchener Verlag, 2008.) under the title Körper und Geschlecht : Studien zur Anthropologie von Leviticus 12 und 15.
    • "Important additions and modifications have been made [to the English edition]--Preface.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-175) and indexes.
    Contents
    • Mapping
    • Exegetical Analysis.
    • Leviticus 12
    • Leviticus 15
    • Biblical Anthropology as Discourse of the Body
    • Flesh
    • Bodily Fluids
    • Menstruation
    • The Cultic Perspective
    • Prospects.
    ISBN
    • 9780567246561
    • 0567246566
    LCCN
    2017446722
    OCLC
    960229628
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