Sacrifice and gender in biblical law / Nicole J. Ruane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruane, Nicole J., 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Sacrifice--Biblical teaching.

Sex role--Biblical teaching.

Gender identity in the Bible.

Animal sacrifice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 267 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Sacrifice & Gender in Biblical Law

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book examines the Hebrew Bible's numerous laws about sacrificial procedure to understand the significance of gender in sacrificial rituals and the reasons that gender distinctions are so vital in these acts. Gender selection of both victims and participants is an intrinsic aspect of the nature and purpose of each rite, affecting its form and function, as well as its legitimacy. Sacrifice and Gender in Biblical Law considers the laws of the firstborn, the rite of the red cow, laws of slaughter, rituals of purification, and other offerings. It shows that these laws regulate material wealth and contribute to the construction of social roles.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Nancy Jay, Gender, and Sacrifice; Sacrifice; Biblical Law; Outline; 1 Womens Sacrificial Roles in Biblical Law; Women's Variable Status in Written Rituals; Women as Officiants; Women as Offerers; Communal Offerings; Personal Offerings; Women as Consumers; Women as Slaughterers; Conclusion; 2 Gender, Animals, and Sacrificial Victimology; Nomenclature; Public and Private Sacrifice; Gender and Hierarchy in Priestly Offerings; lâ; lmîm; "Most Holy" Offerings; Gender and Animal Husbandry; Reproduction and the Ritual Calendar

Sacrifice and DomesticationMasculinity and Blemish; Conclusion; 3 Mothers, Milk, and Meat: The Exclusion of Motherhood from Sacrifice in Cultic Food Laws; Mothers and Sacrifice; "Feminized Protein" and the Sacrificial Cult; Mothers and Meat; Deuteronomy 22:6-7; Boiling a Kid in Its Mothers Milk; Exodus 22:29-30 and Leviticus 22:27-28; Conclusion; 4 Females and Death: The Sacred Impurity of the Red Cow; The Rite of the Cow; Part I: Sacrifice and the Creation of Impurity; The Red Cow and Sacrifice; The Red Cow as a at; The Elimination of Impurity; Part II: Gender Significance; at Offerings

The Red Cow as a Female VictimWaters of Impurity; Redness and Blood; Sacred Impurity; Conclusion; 5 Impurity and the Creation of Difference; Purity and Sacrifice; The Nature of Ritual Impurity; Purity and Gender Hierarchy; Skin Disease and the Function of Impurity; Corpse Contamination: Embracing the Rejected; Leviticus 15; Sexuality as Sickness; Genital Substance versus Gender Role; Menstrual Sex and the Contagion of Gender; Childbirth; The Greatest Impurity; Circumcision; Sacrifice, Purity, and the Personhood of Mothers; Conclusion: Purity, Gender, and Sacrifice

6 Fathers and Firstlings: The Gendered Rhetoric of Child SacrificeIntroduction; Firstborn and Firstlings; Redemption and the Fictional Victim; The Female Firstborn; Fathers and Firstlings; Mothers as Offerers; Mothers and Mlek; Child Sacrifice and Fertility; Conclusion: Child Sacrifice and Animal Sacrifice; Conclusions; Bibliography; Biblical References Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-107-35715-2

1-107-23367-4

1-107-34868-4

1-107-34128-0

1-107-34753-X

1-107-34503-0

1-139-04696-9

1-107-34378-X

OCLC:

854970712