Woman's Body and the Social Body in Hosea 1-2
Alice A. Keefe
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.
巻:
338; 10
年:
2001
出版社:
Sheffield Academic Press
言語:
english
ページ:
252
ISBN 10:
184127285X
ISBN 13:
9781841272856
シリーズ:
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series; Gender, Culture, Theory
ファイル:
PDF, 13.00 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2001