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Controlling Corporeality: The Body and the Household in Ancient Israel
Jon L. Berquist
Controlling Corporeality: The Body and the Household in Ancient Israel
Jon L. Berquist
This text takes the reader through the Hebrew Bible to examine ancient Israel's ideas of the body, the unstable role of gender, the deployment of sexuality and the cultural practices of the time. It looks at the logic of ancient social meanings and contrasts them with contemporary social theory.
256 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | 2002 |
ISBN13 | 9780813530161 |
Publishers | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 256 |
Dimensions | 230 × 152 × 16 mm · 388 g |
Language | English |