Life and Death: Social Perspectives on Biblical Bodies (The Hebrew Bible in Social Perspective)

by Francesca Stavrakopoulou

Publisher:

T&T Clark

, 2021

Overview

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.

Key Features

• Explores some of the social, material and ideological dynamics shaping life and death in the Hebrew Bible and ancient Israel and Judah
• Analyzes topics rangings 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
• Offers new trajectories in the understanding of the ways in which embodiment played out in the societies in which the texts of the Hebrew Bible emerged

Contents

• Introduction: The Materiality of Life and the Sociality of Death - Francesca Stavrakopoulou

Part One: Praxis and Materiality

• Blood and Hair: Body Management and Practice - Susan Niditch
• Wherever the Corpse is, There the Vultures will Gather - Matthew J. Suriano
• Know Well the Faces of Your Sheep': Animal Bodies and Human Bodies - Rebekah Welton

Part Two: Value, Status and Power

• Birthing New Life: Israelite and Mesopotamian Values and Visions of the Pre-born Child - Shawn W. Flynn
• Persons with Disabilities, Unprotected Parties and Israelite Household Structures - Jeremy Schipper
• Modifying Manly Bodies: Mourning and Masculinities in Ezra 9-10 - Elisabeth Cook
• The Wisdom of Ageing - Hugh Pyper

Part Three: Extended Sociality

• Immortality and the Rise of Resurrection - Nicolas Wyatt

Product Details

• Title: Life and Death: Social Perspectives on Biblical Bodies
• Author: Francesca Stavrakopoulou
• Series: The Hebrew Bible in Social Perspective
• Volume: 2
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Pages: 218
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Death › Biblical teaching; Life › Biblical teaching; Bible. O.T. › Criticism, interpretation, etc
• ISBNs: 9780567656728, 9780567699336, 9780567699312, 0567656721, 0567699331, 0567699315
• Resource ID: LLS:LIFEANDDEATH
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T01:15:20Z