Nicole J. Ruane

Sacrifice and Gender in Biblical Law

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the Hebrew Bible's numerous laws about sacrificial procedure to understand the significance of gender in sacrificial rituals.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780521877244
• ISBN-10: 0521877245
• Artikelnr.: 37801714

Autorenporträt

Nicole J. Ruane is Visiting Assistant Professor at Syracuse University. She was previously a lecturer at Northeastern University and an instructor at Union Theological Seminary and the General Theological Seminary. She has published dictionary articles and her work was included in A Question of Sex?, edited by Deborah Rooke.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Women's sacrificial roles in biblical law
3. The gendered victimology of animal offerings
4. Milk, meat, and mothers: the exclusion of mothers from sacrifice in cultic food laws
5. Death and the female: the sacred impurity of the red cow
6. Impurity and the creation of difference
7. Fathers and firstlings
8. Conclusion: child sacrifice and animal sacrifice.