Introduction / Lynn R. Huber and Rhiannon Graybill -- Reading the silence of women in Genesis 34 / Julie Kelso -- "Every green tree and the streets of Jerusalem" : counter constructions of gendered sacred space in the book of Jeremiah / Steed Vernyl Davidson -- Gender and archae…
"This volume collects the most important and cutting-edge readings related to gender, sex, sexuality and the bible. Engaging the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and surrounding texts and worlds, the selected readings reflect a wide-range of perspectives and approaches. The volume i…
"This volume collects the most important and cutting-edge readings related to gender, sex, sexuality and the Bible. Engaging the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and surrounding texts and worlds, the selected readings reflect a wide-range of perspectives and approaches. The volume i…
"This volume collects the most important and cutting-edge readings related to gender, sex, sexuality and the bible. Engaging the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and surrounding texts and worlds, the selected readings reflect a wide-range of perspectives and approaches. The volume i…
The letters of Paul are among the most commonly cited biblical texts in ongoing cultural and religious disputes about gender, sexuality, and embodiment. Appalling Bodies reframes these uses of the letters by reaching past Paul toward other, far more fascinating figures that appe…
The letters of Paul are among the most commonly cited biblical texts in ongoing cultural and religious disputes about gender, sexuality, and embodiment. Appalling Bodies reframes these uses of the letters by reaching past Paul toward other, far more fascinating figures that appe…
Celebrate the career of an inspirational scholar and teacher concerned with revealing voices from the margins This volume of essays honors Susan Niditch, author of War in the Hebrew Bible: A Study in the Ethics of Violence (1993), "My Brother Esau Is a Hairy Man": Hair and Ident…
"The so-called purity laws in Leviticus 11-15 reflect a cultic and social view of the male and female body. These texts do not give detailed physiological descriptions. Instead, they prescribe what to do in the cases of skin disease, delivery and woman's genital discharges, but …