Life and Death: Social Perspectives on Biblical Bodies

ISBN-13: 9780567699329 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 232 str.

Francesca Stavrakopoulou

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List of Figures Notes on Contributors Editor's Note List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction: The Materiality of Life and the Sociality of Death - Francesca Stavrakopoulou, University of Exeter, UK Part One: Praxis and Materiality 2. Blood and Hair: Body Management and Practice - Susan Niditch, Amherst College, USA 2. Wherever the Corpse is, There the Vultures will Gather - Matthew J. Suriano, University of Maryland, USA 4. 'Know Well the Faces of Your Sheep': Animal Bodies and Human Bodies - Rebekah Welton, University Exeter, UK Part Two: Value, Status and Power 5. Birthing New Life: Israelite and Mesopotamian Values and Visions of the Pre-born Child - Shawn W. Flynn, University of Alberta, Canada 6. Persons with Disabilities, Unprotected Parties and Israelite Household Structures - Jeremy Schipper, Temple University, USA 7. Modifying Manly Bodies: Mourning and Masculinities in Ezra 9-10 - Elisabeth Cook, Latin American Biblical University, Costa Rica 8. The Wisdom of Ageing - Hugh Pyper, University of Sheffield, UK Part Three: Extended Sociality 9. Immortality and the Rise of Resurrection - Nicolas Wyatt, University of Edinburgh, UK 10. Forming Divine Bodies in the Hebrew Bible - Daniel O. McClellan, University of Exeter, UK Bibliography Index