Wise, Strange and Holy - The Strange Woman and the Making of the Bible

Zusatztext "This book offers a complex but fascinating investigation of literary and religious symbols." --Theological Book Review! Feed the Minds Informationen zum Autor Claudia V. Camp is Professor of Religion at Texas Christian University! USA and was on the steering committee of the Seminar. She is currently co-general editor of the LHBOTS series! as well as the author or editor of 4 books and numerous articles. An analysis of  the relationship of the Strange Woman and Woman Wisdom, separate but inseparable in Proverbs 1-9. Zusammenfassung The relationship of the Strange Woman and Woman Wisdom! separate but inseparable in Proverbs 1-9! is the book's analytic starting point! becoming a hermeneutical lens for viewing other texts of strangeness-of gender! ethnicity! sexuality! and cultic activity. Wisdom and strangeness mark the narratives of Samson and Solomon! while priestly literature sets strangeness against holiness. Miriam and Dinah! sisters of cultic eponyms Aaron and Levi! are Israelite women defiled or unclean! made strange. Priestly and wisdom constructions of gendered strangeness intersect! illuminating the ideologies of identity that develop in the postexilic period and that shape the beginnings of the biblical canon.

Product details

• Authors: Claudia V Camp, Claudia V. Camp
• Assisted by: Claudia V. Camp (Editor), Andrew Mein (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781841271675
• ISBN: 978-1-84127-167-5
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: JSOT Supplement (Paperback); JSOT Supplement (Paperback); JSOT Supplement
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Kritik und Exegese heiliger Texte, Gender Studies: Gruppen