Tamar S. Kamionkowski

Bodies, Embodiment, and Theology of the Hebrew Bible

Herausgeber: Kamionkowski, S. Tamar; Kim, Wonil

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Recognizing that human experience is very much influenced by inhabiting bodies, the past decade has seen a surge in studies about representation of bodies in religious experience and human imaginations regarding the Divine. The understanding of embodiment as central to human experience has made a big impact within religious studies particularly in contemporary Christian theology, feminist, cultural and ideological criticism and anthropological approaches to the Hebrew Bible. Within the sub-field of theology of the Hebrew Bible, the conversation is still dominated by assumptions that the God of the Hebrew Bible does not have a body and that embodiment of the divine is a new concept introduced outside of the Hebrew Bible. To a great extent, the insights regarding how body discourse can communicate information have not yet been incorporated into theological studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Continnuum-3PL
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 561g
• ISBN-13: 9780567547996
• ISBN-10: 056754799X
• Artikelnr.: 29929996

Autorenporträt

Tamar Kamionkowski, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Bible and Academic Dean of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She is the author of Gender Reversal and Cosmic Chaos: Studies in the Book of Ezekiel. Wonil Kim, Ph. D., is Associate Professor of Hebrew Scriptures/Old Testament at the School of Religion, La Sierra University

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors
Abbreviations
Introduction: S. Tamar Kamionkowski
Section One: God's Biblical Bodies
Amy C. Merrill Willis, "Heavenly Bodies: God and the Body in the Visions of
Daniel"
Claudia Bergmann, ""'Like a Warrior' and 'Like a Woman Giving Birth:'
Expressing Divine Immanence and Transcendence in Isaiah 42:10-17"
Ilona Zsolnay, "The Inadequacies of Yahweh: A Re-examination of Jerusalem's
Portrayal in Ezekiel 16"
Section Two: Human Biblical Bodies
Jeremy Schipper, "Embodying Deuteronomistic Theology in 1 Kings 15:22-24"
Hilary Lipka, "Profaning the Body: Chillel and the Conception of Loss of
Personal Holiness in H"
Eve Levavi Feinstein, "Sexual Pollution in the Hebrew Bible"
Matthew R. Schlimm, "Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics: Engaging Anger in
Genesis"
Section Three: Divine Bodies, Human Bodies, and Today's Reader
Esther J. Hamori, "Divine Embodiment in the Hebrew Bible and its
Implications for Jewish and Christian Incarnational Theology"
Gerald West, "The Contribution of Tamar's Story to the Construction of
Alternative African Masculinities"
Howard Schwartz, "Does God Have a Body in Scripture?: The Problem of
Metaphor and Literal Language in Biblical Interpretation"
Index of references
Index of Authors
Bibliography