Woman's Body and the Social Body in Hosea 1-2
Keefe's analysis dismantles the androcentric and theological assumptions which have determined the dominant reading of Hosea's metaphor of Israel as the adulterous wife of God. It shows how the projection of symbolic associations of women with nature, sexual temptation and sin have anachronistically determined this metaphor as referring to Israel's apostasy in a lurid 'fertility cult'. Against this reading, Keefe's study considers Hosea 1-2 in the context of the association of sexual transgression and social violence in biblical literature; in this light, Hosea's symbol of Israel as an adulterous woman is read as a commentary upon the structu…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-567-51242-0
- EAN: 9780567512420
- Produktnummer: 17001761
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 254 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 14'216 KB
Über den Autor
Alice. A. Keefe is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point.
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