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Woman's body and the social body in Hosea / Alice A. Keefe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keefe, Alice A.
- Series:
- Gender, culture, theory ; 10.
- Gender, culture, theory ; 10
- Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 338
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminist theology.
- Bible. Hosea--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (253 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Sheffield Academic Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 adulter
- Contents:
- Contents; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION; Chapter 2 FEMALE FORNICATION AND FERTILITY RELIGION; Chapter 3 THE FERTILITY CULT REVISITED; Chapter 4 COVENANT AND APOSTASY; Chapter 5 FEMINIST APPROACHES TO HOSEA; Chapter 6 WOMEN, SEX AND SOCIETY; Chapter 7 REREADING HOSEA'S FAMILY METAPHOR; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [222]-243) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786611841911
- 9781281841919
- 1281841919
- 9780567512420
- 0567512428
- OCLC:
- 286913596
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