She Opens Her Hand to the Poor : : Gestures and Social Values in Proverbs / / Jordan W. Jones.
While scholarship on nonverbal communication in the Hebrew Bible has traditionally focused on ritual dress, postures of worship, and related topics, there exist a number of non-ritual gestures in the text for which we have little understanding, such as occur in the book of Proverbs. As the premier s...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2020] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and its Contexts ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1. Whittling Down 'Nonverbal Communication'
- Chapter 2. The Gestures of Evil People
- Chapter 3. The Gestures of Righteous People
- Chapter 4. Non-Ritual Gestures and Social Values in Proverbs
- Chapter 5. Non-Ritual Gestures in Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Chapter 6. The Meaning and Spiritual Implications of Gesture
- Bibliography
- Index