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Woman's body and the social body in Hosea /
Keefe''s analysis dismantles the androcentric and theological assumptions which have determined the dominant reading of Hosea''s metaphor of Israel as the adulterous wife of God. It shows how the projection of symbolic associations of women with nature, sexual temptation and sin...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Sheffield Academic Press,
©2001.
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| Collection: | Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ;
338. Gender, culture, theory ; 10. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | Keefe''s analysis dismantles the androcentric and theological assumptions which have determined the dominant reading of Hosea''s metaphor of Israel as the adulterous wife of God. It shows how the projection of symbolic associations of women with nature, sexual temptation and sin have anachronistically determined this metaphor as referring to Israel''s apostasy in a lurid ''fertility cult''. Against this reading, Keefe''s study considers Hosea 1-2 in the context of the association of sexual transgression and social violence in biblical literature; in this light, Hosea''s symbol of Israel as an. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (252 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-243)-and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780567512420 0567512428 9781841272474 1841272477 |