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Embroidered garments : priests and gender in biblical Israel / edited by Deborah W. Rooke.

Material type: TextTextSeries: Hebrew Bible monographs: Publisher: Sheffield, England : Sheffield Phoenix Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: x, 169 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1906055777 (alk. paper); 9781906055776 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Priests, Jewish -- History | Women in the BibleBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Gender in prophecy, magic and priesthood : from Sumer to Ancient Israel / Athalya Brenner -- Breeches of the Covenant : gender, garments and the priesthood / Deborah W. Rooke -- Gender matters : priestly writing on impurity / Tarja Philip -- Gender and ambiguity in the Genesis genealogies : tracing absence and subversion through the lens of Derrida's Archive Fever / Ingeborg Löwisch -- Genealogy, gynecology, and gender : the priestly writers' portrait of a woman / Elizabeth Goldstein -- Outside the lines : the place of women in priestly nationalism / Rachel Havrelock -- Feeding the green-eyed monster : bitter waters, flood waters, and the theology of exile / Diana Lipton -- The problem with sisters : anthropological perspectives on priestly kinship ideology in Numbers / Claudia V. Camp -- Miriam's mistake : Numbers 12 renarrated in Demetrius the chronographer, 4Q377 (Apocryphal Pentateuch B), legum allegoriae and the pentateuchal targumim / Hanna Tervanotko -- Fathers and daughters : the Jephthah issue and the scream / Alicia Ostriker.

Essays from international conference held at King's College London in 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Gender in prophecy, magic and priesthood : from Sumer to Ancient Israel / Athalya Brenner -- Breeches of the Covenant : gender, garments and the priesthood / Deborah W. Rooke -- Gender matters : priestly writing on impurity / Tarja Philip -- Gender and ambiguity in the Genesis genealogies : tracing absence and subversion through the lens of Derrida's Archive Fever / Ingeborg Löwisch -- Genealogy, gynecology, and gender : the priestly writers' portrait of a woman / Elizabeth Goldstein -- Outside the lines : the place of women in priestly nationalism / Rachel Havrelock -- Feeding the green-eyed monster : bitter waters, flood waters, and the theology of exile / Diana Lipton -- The problem with sisters : anthropological perspectives on priestly kinship ideology in Numbers / Claudia V. Camp -- Miriam's mistake : Numbers 12 renarrated in Demetrius the chronographer, 4Q377 (Apocryphal Pentateuch B), legum allegoriae and the pentateuchal targumim / Hanna Tervanotko -- Fathers and daughters : the Jephthah issue and the scream / Alicia Ostriker.

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