Overview

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 big impact within religious studies particularly in contemporary Christian theology, feminist, cultural and ideological criticism and anthropological approaches to the Hebrew Bible. Within the sub-field of theology of the Hebrew Bible, the conversation is still dominated by assumptions that the God of the Hebrew Bible does not have a body and that embodiment of the divine is a new concept introduced outside of the Hebrew Bible. To a great extent, the insights regarding how body discourse can communicate information have not yet been incorporated into theological studies.

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Author:   Dr. S. Tamar Kamionkowski ,  Wonil Kim
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   T.& T.Clark Ltd
Weight:   0.372kg
ISBN:  

9780567688309

ISBN 10:   0567688305
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   18 April 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"List of Contributors Abbreviations Introduction: S. Tamar Kamionkowski Section One: God's Biblical Bodies Amy C. Merrill Willis, ""Heavenly Bodies: God and the Body in the Visions of Daniel"" Claudia Bergmann, """"'Like a Warrior' and ‘Like a Woman Giving Birth:' Expressing Divine Immanence and Transcendence in Isaiah 42:10-17"" Ilona Zsolnay, ""The Inadequacies of Yahweh: A Re-examination of Jerusalem's Portrayal in Ezekiel 16"" Section Two: Human Biblical Bodies Jeremy Schipper, ""Embodying Deuteronomistic Theology in 1 Kings 15:22-24"" Hilary Lipka, ""Profaning the Body: Chillel and the Conception of Loss of Personal Holiness in H"" Eve Levavi Feinstein, ""Sexual Pollution in the Hebrew Bible"" Matthew R. Schlimm, ""Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics: Engaging Anger in Genesis"" Section Three: Divine Bodies, Human Bodies, and Today's Reader Esther J. Hamori, ""Divine Embodiment in the Hebrew Bible and its Implications for Jewish and Christian Incarnational Theology"" Gerald West, ""The Contribution of Tamar's Story to the Construction of Alternative African Masculinities"" Howard Schwartz, ""Does God Have a Body in Scripture?: The Problem of Metaphor and Literal Language in Biblical Interpretation"" Index of references Index of Authors Bibliography"

Reviews

The focus of this volume of collected papers is the appropriate reading lens for interpretation of embodiment language, with regard to God and to human beings, in the Hebrew Bible. The papers explore the subject of the complex anthropomorphisms in the biblical books, with relation to God's biblical bodies, human biblical bodies, divine bodies, human bodies, and today's reader.This approach is viewed as innovative and separate from much previous biblical scholarship which centred on spiritual interpretations of bodies, especially the metaphysical interpretation of the divine body ... This volume combines a desire to discuss overarching issues about the use of the human form within biblical theology with attention to specific texts and topics relevant to the study of the Hebrew Bible. -- Mary E. Mills, Liverpool Hope University, UK * Journal of Theological Studies (Vol. 64.2) *

Author Information

Tamar Kamionkowski, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Bible and Academic Dean of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She is the author of Gender Reversal and Cosmic Chaos: Studies in the Book of Ezekiel. Wonil Kim, Ph. D., is Associate Professor of Hebrew Scriptures/Old Testament at the School of Religion, La Sierra University. Wonil Kim, Ph. D., is Associate Professor of Hebrew Scriptures/Old Testament at the School of Religion, La Sierra University

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