Woman's Body and the Social Body in Hosea 1-2

Keefe''s analysis dismantles the androcentric and theological assumptions which have determined the dominant reading of Hosea''s metaphor of Israel as the adulterous wife of God. It shows how the projection of symbolic associations of women with nature, sexual temptation and sin have anachronistically determined this metaphor as referring to Israel''s apostasy in a lurid ''fertility cult''. Against this reading, Keefe''s study considers Hosea 1-2 in the context of the association of sexual transgression and social violence in biblical literature; in this light, Hosea''s symbol of Israel as an adulterous woman is read as a commentary upon the structural violence in Israelite society which accompanied the eighth century boom in ''agribusiness'' and attendant processes of land consolidation.>

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• Authors: Alice Keefe, Alice A Keefe, Alice A. Keefe, Keefe Alice A.
• Assisted by: Claudia V. Camp (Editor), Andrew Mein (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2002
• EAN: 9781841272856
• ISBN: 978-1-84127-285-6
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Journal for the Study of the O; Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Te; Journal for the Study of the O; The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Israel, HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish, HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine, LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern, RELIGION / Biblical Meditations / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Bible readings, selections & meditations, Middle Eastern history, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Hebrew, Bible readings, selections and meditations, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval