Life and Death: Social Perspectives on Biblical Bodies

✍ Scribed by Francesca Stavrakopoulou (editor)

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 231
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 gestations, 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Copyright
Table of contents
Figures
Contributors
Editor's Note
Abbreviations
Chapter One The materiality of life and the sociality of death: An introduction
Part One Praxis and materiality
Chapter Two Blood and hair: Body management and practice (SUSAN NIDITCH)
Chapter Three Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather (MATTHEW J. SURIANO)
Chapter Four ‘Know well the faces of your sheep’: Animal bodies and human bodies (REBEKAH WELTON)
Part Two Value, status and power
Chapter Five Birthing new life: Israelite and Mesopotamian values and visions of the preborn child* (SHAWN W. FLYNN)
Chapter Six Persons with disabilities, unprotected parties and Israelite household structures (JEREMY SCHIPPER)
Chapter Seven Modifying manly bodies: Mourning and masculinities in Ezra 9–10 (ELISABETH COOK)
Part Three Extended sociality
Chapter Nine Immortality and the rise of resurrection (NICOLAS WYATT)
Chapter Ten Forming divine bodies in the Hebrew Bible (DANIEL O. McCLELLAN)
Index of Ancient Sources
Index of Authors
Index of Subjects