Harlot or Holy Woman? : : A Study of Hebrew Qedešah / / Phyllis A. Bird.
Harlot or Holy Woman? presents an exhaustive study of qedešah, a Hebrew word meaning “consecrated woman” but rendered “prostitute” or “sacred prostitute” in Bible translations. Reexamining biblical and extrabiblical texts, Phyllis A. Bird questions how qedešah came to be associated with prostitution...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (512 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Sacred Prostitution as Interpretive Construct
- Chapter 3. Sir James George Frazer and the Concept of Sacred Prostitution
- Chapter 4. Classical Sources in Constructions of Sacred Prostitution
- Chapter 5. New Sources from the Ancient Near East
- Chapter 6. Qedešah in the Hebrew Bible
- Appendix A. Synopsis of Classical Sources in Constructions of Sacred Prostitution
- Appendix B. Synopsis of qadištu /nu.gig Texts
- Appendix C. Nu- gig in Early Sumerian Texts
- Bibliography
- Index of Sources