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Title Bodies, embodiment, and theology of the Hebrew Bible / edited by S. Tamar Kamionkowski and Wonil Kim
Published New York : T & T Clark, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (x, 250 pages)
Series Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 465
T & T Clark library of biblical studies
Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 465.
T & T Clark library of biblical studies.
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 -- The 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 -- The 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
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SUBJECT Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible. Old Testament -- Theology
Bible. Old Testament fast
Bibel Altes Testament gnd
Altes Testament. idszbz
Subject Human body -- Biblical teaching
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Old Testament.
Human body -- Biblical teaching
Theology
Leiblichkeit
Altes Testament -- Theologie.
Theologie -- Altes Testament.
Leib -- Altes Testament.
Altes Testament -- Leib.
Körper.
Körperbild.
Embodiment.
Gottesvorstellung.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Kamionkowski, S. Tamar
Kim, Wonil
LC no. 2010279616
ISBN 9780567212634
0567212637
1283004305
9781283004305
9786613004307
6613004308