Bodies, embodiment, and theology of the Hebrew Bible /

Recognizing that human experience is very much influenced by inhabiting bodies, the past decade has seen a surge in studies about representation of bodies in religious experience and human imaginations regarding the Divine. The understanding of embodiment as central to human experience has made a bi...

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Other Authors: Kamionkowski, S. Tamar (Editor), Kim, Wonil (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : T T Clark, [2010]
Series:Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 465
T T Clark library of biblical studies
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Table of Contents:
  • note: Section I God's Biblical Bodies
  • Heavenly Bodies: God and the Body in the Visions of Daniel / Amy C. Merrill Willis
  • Like a Warrior and Like a Woman Giving Birth: Expressing Divine Immanence and Transcendence in Isaiah 42: 10-17 / Claudia Bergmann
  • Inadequacies of Yahweh: A Re-Examination of Jerusalem's Portrayal in Ezekiel 16 / Ilona Zsolnay
  • Section II Human Biblical Bodies
  • Embodying Deuteronomistic Theology in 1 Kings 15: 22-24 / Jeremy Schipper
  • Profaning the Body: And the Conception of Loss of Personal Holiness in H / Hilary Lipka
  • Sexual Pollution in the Hebrew Bible: A New Perspective / Eve Levavi Feinstein
  • Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics: Engaging Anger in Genesis / Matthew R. Schlimm
  • Section III Divine Bodies, Human Bodies, and Today's Reader
  • Divine Embodiment in the Hebrew Bible and some Implications for Jewish and Christian Incarnational Theologies / Esther J. Hamori
  • Contribution of Tamar's Story to the Construction of Alternative African Masculinities / Gerald West
  • Does God Have a Body? The Problem of Metaphor and Literal Language in Biblical Interpretation / Howard Schwartz