Religion and Female Body in Ancient Judaism and Its Environments / / ed. by Géza G. Xeravits.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Balla, Ibolya,; Edwards, Suzanne M.,; Esztári, Réka,; Fröhlich, Ida,; Goff, Matthew,; Hieke, Thomas,; Kőszeghy, Miklós,; Parlagi, Gáspár,; Schöpflin, Karin,; Stenström, Hanna,; Vér, Ádám,; Wright, Benjamin G.,; Zsengellér, József,; Ötvös, Csaba,
• HerausgeberIn: Xeravits, Géza G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies , 28
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (270 p.)

The volume publishes papers read at the ninth International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, Budapest, 2012. The title of the conference and the issuing volume covers an, on the one hand, extremely important and, on the other hand, regrettably neglected aspect particularly of the ancient Je...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Contents
• Mesopotamia
• The Voices of Ištar
• The Hebrew Bible and Its Environments
• The Female Body in Israel and Judah before the Exile
• Menstruation and Impurity
• Early Judaism
• “She Undid Him with the Beauty of Her Face” (Jdt 16.6)
• The Female Body in Second Temple Literature
• The Personification of Wisdom and Folly as Women in Ancient Judaism
• “Pillars of Gold on a Silver Base:”
• Women’s Roles in the Narrative and Theology of the Book of Tobit
• Judith as a Female David
• Christianity and Gnosticism
• Female Imagery in the Book of Revelation
• Female Body?
• The City without(?) Women
• Index of Sources