The body lived, cultured, adorned : essays on dress and the body in the Bible and ancient near east in honor of Nili S. Fox /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors:	Garroway, Kristine Henriksen (Editor), Palmer, Christine Elizabeth, 1970- (Editor), Erisman, Angela Roskop, 1972- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Cincinnati, Ohio] : Hebrew Union College Press, [2022]
Subjects:	Bible. > Old Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible. > Old Testament. Human body > Biblical teaching. Biblical costume. Clothing and dress > Middle East. Identification (Religion) LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical Clothing and dress. Middle East. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Cover
Title Page
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Abbreviations
Contributors
Introduction
The Body Lived
Chapter 1. Consider Her: Body-Talk as a Literary Strategy in the Book of Judges
Chapter 2. An Embodiment of Silence: The Hand-on-Mouth Gesture in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East
Chapter 3. Bodies of Hunger: Hunger as an Indicator of Social Instability in the Bible and Ramesside Egypt
Chapter 4. Drama in the Valley of Achor: Corporal Responses in Joshua 7
Chapter 5. Sanctified or Stigmatized: Social Branding through Smell in the Ancient Near East
The Body Cultured
Chapter 6. King of the Mountains: Reassessing Royal Representation on a Middle Assyrian Cult Pedestal
Chapter 7. Bodies in Lieu of Interest: Pledging Slaves as Collateral on Personal Loans in the Neo-Assyrian Period and Beyond
Chapter 8. Hair as Ritual Symbol in the Nazirite Vow: A Study of Biblical Hair Manipulation in Numbers 6:1-21
Chapter 9. Shaving It All Off: A Demeaning Priestly Prescription for the Levites in Numbers 8
Chapter 10. The Weeping Lady of Gilat: The Iconography of Affect and Rites of Passage
The Body Adorned
Chapter 11. An Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat: The Style and Significance of Joseph's Garment
Chapter 12. Vulnerable Fabrics: Negation of Dress and Power in the Hebrew Bible
Chapter 13. The Gift that Keeps on Giving: Children and Clothing in the Hebrew Bible
Chapter 14. Embodied Remembrance: The Inscribed Priestly Seals in Israel's Worship
Chapter 15. And a Poor Man for a Pair of Shoes: A Peculiar Exegetical Twist on the Sale of Joseph
Index
Modern Authors
Primary Texts
Hebrew Bible
Ancient Near Eastern Sources
Papyri
Deuterocanonical and Pseudepigraphical Texts
Ancient Jewish Writers
Greek New Testament
Rabbinic Texts
Targumic Texts
Other Rabbinic and Later Jewish Works
Other Greek and Latin Texts
Piyyutim
Geniza Texts
Arabic Texts