Woman's body and the social body in Hosea /

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...

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Main Author: Keefe, Alice A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Sheffield Academic Press, 2001
Series:Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 338.
Gender, culture, theory ; 10.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.