Religion and Female Body in Ancient Judaism and Its Environments (2015 Xeravits), edited volume

Religion and Female Body in Ancient Judaism and Its Environments (2015) is a volume edited by Géza G. Xeravits.

Abstract

Selected papers delivered at the Ninth International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, held at the Sapientia College of Theology (Budapest), Hungary, 29-31 May, 2012.

"The title of the conference and the issuing volume covers an, on the one hand, extremely important and, on the other hand, regrettably neglected aspect particularly of the ancient Jewish and Christian traditions. Traditional manifestations of both Judaism and Christianity are predominantly masculine theological constructions. Despite their harsh masculine orientation, however, neither Judaism nor Christianity lacks elaboration on the female principle. When an ancient author chooses female imagery in order to make his message more emphatic, the female body as such forms an integral part of their metaphors. The contributions in this volume explore this phenomenon within the literature of early Judaism, and within its broad environments."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Berlin, Germany: Walter de Gruyter, 2015 (Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies, 28).

Contents

• Réka Esztári and Ádám Vér: "The Voices of Ištar: Prophetesses and Female Ecstatics in the Neo-Assyrian Empire"

• Miklós Kőszeghy: "The Female Body in Israel and Judah before the Exile"

• Thomas Hieke: Menstruation and Impurity. Regular Abstention from the Cult According to Leviticus 15:19-24 and Some Examples for the Reception of the Biblical Text in Early Judaism"

• Benjamin G. Wright and Suzanne M. Edwards: "'She Undid Him with the Beauty of Her Face' (Jdt 16.6): Reading Women’s Bodies in Early Jewish Literature"

• Ida Fröhlich: "The Female Body in Second Temple Literature"

• Matthew Goff: "The Personification of Wisdom and Folly as Women in Ancient Judaism"

• Ibolya Balla: "'Pillars of Gold on a Silver Base:' Female Beauty as the Cause of Anxiety and Praise in the Book of Ben Sira Reading Women’s Bodies in Early Jewish Literature"

• Karin Schöpflin: "Women’s Roles in the Narrative and Theology of the Book of Tobit"

• József Zsengellér: "Judith as a Female David: Beauty and Body in Religious Context"

• Hanna Stenström: "Female Imagery in the Book of Revelation"

• Csaba Ötvös: "Female Body? Footnotes on the Theology of the First Woman’s Birth Stories in the Gnostic Tractates from Nag Hammadi"

• Gáspár Parlagi: "The City without(?) Women. Approaches to the Female in Early Monastic Literature"

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