Elizabeth W. Goldstein

Impurity and Gender in the Hebrew Bible (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Impurity and Gender in the Hebrew Bible explores the role of female blood in the Hebrew Bible and considers its theological implications for future understandings of purity and impurity in the Jewish religion. Influenced by the work of Jonathan Klawans (Sin and Impurity in Ancient Judaism), and using the categories of ritual and moral impurities, this book analyzes the way in which these categories intersect with women and with the impurity of female blood, and reads the biblical foundations of purity and blood taboos with a feminist lens. Ultimately, the purpose of this book is to understand the intersection between impurity and gender, figuratively and non-figuratively, in the Hebrew Bible. Goldstein traces this intersection from the years 1000 BCE-250 BCE and ends with a consideration of female impurity in the literature of Qumran.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498500814
• Artikelnr.: 43977112

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth W. Goldstein is associate professor of religious studies at Gonzaga University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Narratives, Genealogy and Gender in P
Chapter 3: Gender and Impurity in P Chapter 4: Expanding the Notion of
Purity: Gender, Blood and the Holiness Code Chapter 5: Blame it on a
Metaphor: Female Degradation and Blood in Ezekiel Chapter 6: Gender and
Impurity in Ezra-Nehemiah Chapter 7: NDH as Sin in the Scrolls Chapter 8:
Impurity in the Foundation of Jews and Judaism