"Cutting across disciplinary boundaries and challenging traditional understandings of historical cultures, this handbook examines and interrogates the ways in which gender, sexuality, and religion were mutually constructed and negotiated in ancient Near Eastern societies. Chapters look at ritual and ceremonial practices, iconographic representations, mythological and divinatory texts, personal beliefs, and piety, focusing on the intersections of gender, sexuality and religion as a central category of inquiry"--
"Cutting across disciplinary boundaries and challenging traditional understandings of historical cultures, this handbook examines and interrogates the ways in which gender, sexuality, and religion were mutually constructed and negotiated in ancient Near Eastern societies. Chapters look at ritual and ceremonial practices, iconographic representations, mythological and divinatory texts, personal beliefs, and piety, focusing on the intersections of gender, sexuality and religion as a central category of inquiry"--
Shawna Dolansky is Associate Professor of Humanities at Carleton University, Canada. She is the author of Now You See It, Now You Don't: Biblical Perspectives on the Relationship Between Magic and Religion (2008) and co-author of The Bible Now (2011). Sarah Shectman is the Managing Editor of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization and the author of Women in the Pentateuch: A Feminist and Source-Critical Analysis (2009).
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Introduction Shawna Dolansky (Carleton University Canada) and Sarah Shectman (Independent scholar USA) Part 1: Gender Roles and Attributions 1. Stephanie Budin (Independent scholar UK) "Why Is Ishtar a Fertility Goddess?" 2. Noam Cohen (Muhlenberg College USA) "A Married Woman's Right to Intercourse: Schoolboys Law and Female Sexuality" 3. Joanna Töyräänvuori (University of Helsinki Finland) "Divine Sexuality in the Ugaritic Texts" 4. Omar N'Shea (University of Malta Malta) "Gender Benders in the Temple of the Goddess Istar: The Case of the Assinnu" 5. Dorothea Erbele-Küster (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Germany) "Sexuality and Food" Part II: Ritual and Body 6. Adi Marili (Bar Ilan University Israel) "The Human Body in Ritual Worship: Performance and Meaning" 7. Jonathan Stökl (King's College London UK) "Priestly Masculinity in the First Millennium BCE: Fragile Hegemonies" 8. Céline Debourse (Harvard University USA) "Women in Cultic Functions in Late Achaemenid and Hellenistic Babylon" 9. Gioele Zisa (The University of Palermo Italy) "'Rear up Make Love to Me! Rear up Bleat for Me!': Heteronormative Male Sexuality in the Mesopotamian Therapies for the Recovery of Sexual Desire" 10. Joseph Scales (Independent scholar UK) and Laura Quick (University of Oxford UK) "The Emergence of Submergence: Women's Bathing Rituals in Ancient Judaism" 11. Amelia Brownridge (University of Toronto Canada) "The Dual Feminine: An Exploration of the Pregnancy Metaphor in 1QHa 1(?)-18" 12. Sarah Cook (The University of Georgia USA) "No Body No Crime: Dressing Yahweh-as-Tabernacle in Exodus 35-40" Part III: Violence and Power 13. Chontel Syfox (University of Wisconsin Madison USA) "Rewriting the Rape of Dinah: The Endogamous Exchange of Women and Reproductive Futurism in Genesis 34 and Jubilees 30" 14. Jennifer Lehmann (Graduate Theological Union USA) "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor HR Violation: Sexual Violence and Masculinity in Genesis 39" 15. Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme (University of Oslo Norway) "Beauty Power and Gender in the Hebrew Bible" 16. Carmen Palmer (Stetson University USA) "'The Woman Was Very Beautiful': Beautiful Women in Scripture as Purveyors of Tradition" 17. R. Gillian Glass (Aarhus University Denmark) "Inverted Pathways to Power: Heavenly Knowledge and Authority in the Book of the Watchers and Aseneth" 18. Kelly J. Murphy (Central Michigan University USA) "'And Aaron was Silent': Priests Power and Masculinities"
Introduction Shawna Dolansky (Carleton University Canada) and Sarah Shectman (Independent scholar USA) Part 1: Gender Roles and Attributions 1. Stephanie Budin (Independent scholar UK) "Why Is Ishtar a Fertility Goddess?" 2. Noam Cohen (Muhlenberg College USA) "A Married Woman's Right to Intercourse: Schoolboys Law and Female Sexuality" 3. Joanna Töyräänvuori (University of Helsinki Finland) "Divine Sexuality in the Ugaritic Texts" 4. Omar N'Shea (University of Malta Malta) "Gender Benders in the Temple of the Goddess Istar: The Case of the Assinnu" 5. Dorothea Erbele-Küster (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Germany) "Sexuality and Food" Part II: Ritual and Body 6. Adi Marili (Bar Ilan University Israel) "The Human Body in Ritual Worship: Performance and Meaning" 7. Jonathan Stökl (King's College London UK) "Priestly Masculinity in the First Millennium BCE: Fragile Hegemonies" 8. Céline Debourse (Harvard University USA) "Women in Cultic Functions in Late Achaemenid and Hellenistic Babylon" 9. Gioele Zisa (The University of Palermo Italy) "'Rear up Make Love to Me! Rear up Bleat for Me!': Heteronormative Male Sexuality in the Mesopotamian Therapies for the Recovery of Sexual Desire" 10. Joseph Scales (Independent scholar UK) and Laura Quick (University of Oxford UK) "The Emergence of Submergence: Women's Bathing Rituals in Ancient Judaism" 11. Amelia Brownridge (University of Toronto Canada) "The Dual Feminine: An Exploration of the Pregnancy Metaphor in 1QHa 1(?)-18" 12. Sarah Cook (The University of Georgia USA) "No Body No Crime: Dressing Yahweh-as-Tabernacle in Exodus 35-40" Part III: Violence and Power 13. Chontel Syfox (University of Wisconsin Madison USA) "Rewriting the Rape of Dinah: The Endogamous Exchange of Women and Reproductive Futurism in Genesis 34 and Jubilees 30" 14. Jennifer Lehmann (Graduate Theological Union USA) "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor HR Violation: Sexual Violence and Masculinity in Genesis 39" 15. Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme (University of Oslo Norway) "Beauty Power and Gender in the Hebrew Bible" 16. Carmen Palmer (Stetson University USA) "'The Woman Was Very Beautiful': Beautiful Women in Scripture as Purveyors of Tradition" 17. R. Gillian Glass (Aarhus University Denmark) "Inverted Pathways to Power: Heavenly Knowledge and Authority in the Book of the Watchers and Aseneth" 18. Kelly J. Murphy (Central Michigan University USA) "'And Aaron was Silent': Priests Power and Masculinities"
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