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Woman's Body and the Social Body in Hosea

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by Alice A. Keefe

    • Author

      Alice A. Keefe

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Continuum

    • Published

      February 2002

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    Woman's Body and the Social Body in Hosea

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    Product Description

    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.

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    • Author

      Alice A. Keefe

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Continuum

    • Published

      February 2002

    • Weight

      359g

    • Page Count

      254

    • Dimensions

      156 x 234 x 14 mm

    • ISBN

      9781841272856

    • ISBN-10

      184127285X

    • Eden Code

      1181017

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    • Author/Creator: Alice A. Keefe

    • ISBN: 9781841272856

    • Publisher: Continuum

    • Release Date: February 2002

    • Weight: 359g

    • Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 14 mm

    • Eden Code: 1181017

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