Sacrifice and Gender in Biblical Law.

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This book examines the Hebrew Bible's numerous laws about sacrificial procedure to understand the significance of gender in sacrificial rituals.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ruane, Nicole J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Temas:
Bible. > Old Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. > Old Testament
Sacrifice > Biblical teaching.
Sex role > Biblical teaching.
Gender identity in the Bible.
Animal sacrifice.
Sacrifice > Enseignement biblique.
Rôle selon le sexe > Enseignement biblique.
Identité de genre dans la Bible.
Sacrifice d'animaux.
Animal sacrifice
Gender identity in the Bible
Sacrifice > Biblical teaching
Sex role > Biblical teaching
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Nancy Jay, Gender, and Sacrifice; Sacrifice; Biblical Law; Outline; 1 Womens Sacrificial Roles in Biblical Law; Women's Variable Status in Written Rituals; Women as Officiants; Women as Offerers; Communal Offerings; Personal Offerings; Women as Consumers; Women as Slaughterers; Conclusion; 2 Gender, Animals, and Sacrificial Victimology; Nomenclature; Public and Private Sacrifice; Gender and Hierarchy in Priestly Offerings; lâ; lmîm; "Most Holy" Offerings; Gender and Animal Husbandry; Reproduction and the Ritual Calendar.
  • Sacrifice and DomesticationMasculinity and Blemish; Conclusion; 3 Mothers, Milk, and Meat: The Exclusion of Motherhood from Sacrifice in Cultic Food Laws; Mothers and Sacrifice; "Feminized Protein" and the Sacrificial Cult; Mothers and Meat; Deuteronomy 22:6-7; Boiling a Kid in Its Mothers Milk; Exodus 22:29-30 and Leviticus 22:27-28; Conclusion; 4 Females and Death: The Sacred Impurity of the Red Cow; The Rite of the Cow; Part I: Sacrifice and the Creation of Impurity; The Red Cow and Sacrifice; The Red Cow as a at; The Elimination of Impurity; Part II: Gender Significance; at Offerings.
  • The Red Cow as a Female VictimWaters of Impurity; Redness and Blood; Sacred Impurity; Conclusion; 5 Impurity and the Creation of Difference; Purity and Sacrifice; The Nature of Ritual Impurity; Purity and Gender Hierarchy; Skin Disease and the Function of Impurity; Corpse Contamination: Embracing the Rejected; Leviticus 15; Sexuality as Sickness; Genital Substance versus Gender Role; Menstrual Sex and the Contagion of Gender; Childbirth; The Greatest Impurity; Circumcision; Sacrifice, Purity, and the Personhood of Mothers; Conclusion: Purity, Gender, and Sacrifice.
  • 6 Fathers and Firstlings: The Gendered Rhetoric of Child SacrificeIntroduction; Firstborn and Firstlings; Redemption and the Fictional Victim; The Female Firstborn; Fathers and Firstlings; Mothers as Offerers; Mothers and Mlek; Child Sacrifice and Fertility; Conclusion: Child Sacrifice and Animal Sacrifice; Conclusions; Bibliography; Biblical References Index; Subject Index.

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