Publication

1997 - Brill, Leiden

Language

English

Word Count

47,500 words, Guess

Page Count

190 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC221.8/3067
  • LCCBS1199.S45 B74 1997

Description

This book studies how, by what means and to what extent human love, desire and sex, and possibly even 'sexuality', are gendered in the Hebrew Bible. Following a classification and gendering of the linguistic and semantic data, the investigation looks into the construction of male and female bodies in language and ideologies; the praxis and ideology of sex, procreation and contraception; deviation from socio-sexual boundaries (e.g. incest, rape, adultery, homosexuality, prostitution); eroticism and 'pornoprophetics'. Finally, the work discusses some of the wider sociological and theological implications of the findings.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Biblical interpretation series,

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