Mind the Gap: An Introduction to Biblical Philology, Gender, and the Two Mothers
Biblical philology conventionally assumes the objectivity of the interpreter in recovering a single, stable meaning of its object of interpretation (the biblical text). This aim is imperiled by unexamined assumptions of this interpretive framework. The long tradition of male-dominated philology and...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2019]
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Hebrew bible and ancient Israel
Year: 2019, Volume: 8, Issue: 4, Pages: 388-398 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Philology
/ Bible reading
/ Metaphor
/ Gender-specific role
/ Gender studies
/ Test bias
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament HD Early Judaism |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | Biblical philology conventionally assumes the objectivity of the interpreter in recovering a single, stable meaning of its object of interpretation (the biblical text). This aim is imperiled by unexamined assumptions of this interpretive framework. The long tradition of male-dominated philology and theologically oriented scholarship obscures (gendered) dimensions in the study of language and its patterns in biblical texts. The following essay foregrounds the four main studies with a brief, focused sociology of knowledge in the field: how are certain types of metaphors deemed important objects of study for biblical philology while others remain unstudied? I propose a bias towards metaphors recognizable to the interpreters, while others are unrecognized as a result of the interpreters' social positioning. |
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| ISSN: | 2192-2284 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Hebrew bible and ancient Israel
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1628/hebai-2019-0025 |