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Woman's Body and the Social Body in Hosea

  • Paperback
  • 254 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.4 cm

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For scholars and students of biblical literature

Challenges traditional views of women's roles in Hosea

You will gain deeper insights into biblical social issues

Discover a fresh perspective on Hosea's metaphor of Israel through a critical analysis of gender and society.

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 have anachronistically determined this metaphor as referring to Israel's apostasy in a lurid "fertility cult". Against this reading, Keefe's study considers Hosea 1-2 in the context of the association of sexual transgression and social violence in biblical literature; in this light, Hosea's symbol of Israel as an adulterous woman is read as a commentary upon the structural violence in Israelite society which accompanied the 8th century boom in "agribusiness" and attendant processes of land consolidation.

  • Title

    Woman's Body and the Social Body in Hosea

  • Author

    Alice A. Keefe

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Continuum

  • Published

    February 2002

  • Weight

    359g

  • Page Count

    254

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9781841272856

  • ISBN-10

    184127285X

  • Eden Code

    1181017

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