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Zusatztext Life and Death gathers together various reflections upon ancient Israelite bodies: the bodies of men and women, children and the elderly, the unborn and the dead, the disabled and the divine — even the bodies of animals. Still, the contributors, although in many ways as diverse as the bodies they study (men and women from Europe and the Americas, newly minted Ph.D.s and retired professors), all share a conviction that the body is a vehicle through which identity is constructed and communicated, yet constantly renegotiated. What results is a creative, compelling collection whose proverbial “sum” is far greater than its various “parts.” Informationen zum Autor Francesca Stavrakopoulou is Senior Lecturer in Hebrew Bible at the University of Exeter, UK. Her research focuses on ancient Israelite religion, Judahite kingship, and history and ideology in the Hebrew Bible. She is the author of King Manasseh and Child Sacrifice: Biblical Distortions of Historical Realities (De Gruyter, 2004). Vorwort This volume provides an overview of themes of Life and Death in relation to the Hebrew Bible and the religions of Israel, Judah, and the surrounding area. Zusammenfassung Life and Death: Social Perspectives on Biblical Bodies explores some of the social, material, and ideological dynamics shaping life and death in both the Hebrew Bible and ancient Israel and Judah. Analysing topics ranging from the bodily realities of gestation, subsistence, and death, and embodied performances of gender, power, and status, to the imagined realities of post-mortem and divine existence, the essays in this volume offer exciting new trajectories in our understanding of the ways in which embodiment played out in the societies in which the texts of the Hebrew Bible emerged. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsEditor's NoteList of Abbreviations1. Introduction: The Materiality of Life and the Sociality of Death - Francesca Stavrakopoulou, University of Exeter, UK Part One: Praxis and Materiality 2. Blood and Hair: Body Management and Practice - Susan Niditch, Amherst College, USA 2. Wherever the Corpse is, There the Vultures will Gather - Matthew J. Suriano, University of Maryland, USA 4. 'Know Well the Faces of Your Sheep': Animal Bodies and Human Bodies - Rebekah Welton, University Exeter, UK Part Two: Value, Status and Power 5. Birthing New Life: Israelite and Mesopotamian Values and Visions of the Pre-born Child - Shawn W. Flynn, University of Alberta, Canada 6. Persons with Disabilities, Unprotected Parties and Israelite Household Structures - Jeremy Schipper, Temple University, USA 7. Modifying Manly Bodies: Mourning and Masculinities in Ezra 9-10 - Elisabeth Cook, Latin American Biblical University, Costa Rica 8. The Wisdom of Ageing - Hugh Pyper, University of Sheffield, UK Part Three: Extended Sociality 9. Immortality and the Rise of Resurrection - Nicolas Wyatt, University of Edinburgh, UK 10. Forming Divine Bodies in the Hebrew Bible - Daniel O. McClellan, University of Exeter, UK BibliographyIndex ...
