Prophets Male And Female: Gender And Prophecy In The Hebrew Bible, The Eastern Mediterranean, And The Ancient Near East (ancient Israel And Its ... Literature Ancient Israel And Its Litera)
by Jonathan Stökl /
2013 / English / PDF
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Because gender is an essential component of societies of all times
and places, it is no surprise that every prophetic expression in
the ancient social world was a gendered one. In this volume
scholars of the biblical literature and of the ancient
Mediterranean consider a wide array of prophetic phenomena. In
addition to prophetic texts of the Hebrew Bible, the essays also
look at prophecy in ancient Mesopotamia and early Christianity.
Using the most current theoretical categories, the volume
demonstrates how essential a broad definition of gender is for
understanding its connection to both the delivery and the content
of ancient prophecy. Attention to gender dynamics will continue to
reveal the fluidity of prophetic gender performance and to open up
the ancient contexts of prophetic texts. The contributors are
Roland Boer, Corrine Carvalho, Lester L. Grabbe, Anselm C.
Hagedorn, Esther J. Hamori, Dale Launderville, Antti Marjanen,
Martti Nissinen, Jonathan Stökl, Hanna Tervanotko, and Ilona
Zsolnay.
Because gender is an essential component of societies of all times
and places, it is no surprise that every prophetic expression in
the ancient social world was a gendered one. In this volume
scholars of the biblical literature and of the ancient
Mediterranean consider a wide array of prophetic phenomena. In
addition to prophetic texts of the Hebrew Bible, the essays also
look at prophecy in ancient Mesopotamia and early Christianity.
Using the most current theoretical categories, the volume
demonstrates how essential a broad definition of gender is for
understanding its connection to both the delivery and the content
of ancient prophecy. Attention to gender dynamics will continue to
reveal the fluidity of prophetic gender performance and to open up
the ancient contexts of prophetic texts. The contributors are
Roland Boer, Corrine Carvalho, Lester L. Grabbe, Anselm C.
Hagedorn, Esther J. Hamori, Dale Launderville, Antti Marjanen,
Martti Nissinen, Jonathan Stökl, Hanna Tervanotko, and Ilona
Zsolnay.
