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1 online resource (x, 250 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 465
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T & T Clark library of biblical studies
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Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 465.
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T & T Clark library of biblical studies.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Heavenly bodies : God and the body in the visions of Daniel / Amy C. Merrill Willis -- "Like a warrior" and "like a woman giving birth" : expressing divine immanence and transcendence in Isaiah 42:10-17 / Claudia Bergmann -- Inadequacies of Yahweh : a re-examination of Jerusalem's portrayal in Ezekiel 16 / Ilona Zsolnay -- Embodying Deuteronomistic theology in 1 Kings 15:22-24 / Jeremy Schipper -- Profaning the body : [ḥalal] and the conception of loss of personal holiness in H / Hilary Lipka -- Sexual pollution in the Hebrew Bible : a new perspective / Eve Levavi Feinstein -- Emotion, embodiment, and ethics : engaging anger in Genesis / Matthew R. Schlimm -- Divine embodiment in the Hebrew Bible and some implications for Jewish and Christian incarnational theologies / Esther J. Hamori -- Contribution of Tamar's story to the construction of alternative African masculinities / Gerald West -- Does God have a body? : the problem of metaphor and literal language in biblical interpretation / Howard Schwartz. |
| Summary |
Recognizing that human experience is very much influenced by inhabiting bodies, the past decade has seen a surge in studies about representation of bodies in religious experience and human imaginations regarding the Divine. The understanding of embodiment as central to human experience has made a big impact within religious studies particularly in contemporary Christian theology, feminist, cultural and ideological criticism and anthropological approaches to the Hebrew Bible. Within the sub-field of theology of the Hebrew Bible, the conversation is still dominated by assumptions that the God of. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Bible. Old Testament. |
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Bible. Old Testament -- Theology.
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Theology. |
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Bible. Old Testament. |
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Human body -- Biblical teaching.
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Human body -- Biblical teaching. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Kamionkowski, S. Tamar.
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Kim, Wonil.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bodies, embodiment, and theology of the Hebrew Bible. New York : T & T Clark, ©2010 056754799X (DLC) 2010279616 (OCoLC)432428714 |
| ISBN |
9780567212634 (electronic book) |
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0567212637 (electronic book) |
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056754799X |
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9780567547996 |
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