Body, Gender and Purity in Leviticus 12 and 15

Dorothea Erbele-Kuster author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:10th Aug '17

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Body, Gender and Purity in Leviticus 12 and 15 cover

Explores the ways in which the male and female body is constructed in Leviticus 12 and 15 and how its reception history unfolds.

The so-called purity laws in Leviticus 11-15 reflect a cultic and social view of the male and female body. These texts do not give detailed physiological descriptions. Instead, they prescribe what to do in the cases of skin disease, delivery and wo/man's genital discharges, but the particular way of dealing with the body and the language used in Leviticus 12 and 15 ask for clarification: how do these texts construct the male and female body? Which roles does gender play within this language?

By means of themes such as menstruation and circumcision, Erbele-Kuester unfolds the language used for the body in Leviticus and its interpretation history. Her study provides material for a contemporary anthropology of bodies which relates the human sexed body to God's holiness.

On the whole there is much here to appreciate ... There are observations aplenty to debate ... It would not be safe for anyone working in the area to ignore this book. * The Expository Times *

ISBN: 9780567246561

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 442g

200 pages