Dress, adornment and the body in the Hebrew Bible
Cover -- Dress, Adornment, and the Body in the Hebrew Bible -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Dress and Adornment at the Intersection of Material Culture and Embodiment -- Theory and Method of Material Culture and Embod...
| Summary: | Cover -- Dress, Adornment, and the Body in the Hebrew Bible -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Dress and Adornment at the Intersection of Material Culture and Embodiment -- Theory and Method of Material Culture and Embodiment -- The Significance of This Study -- 1: Spread the Hem of Your Cloak over Me (Ruth 3:9): Dress and Adornment at the Intersection of Material Culture and Embodiment -- The Body as Boundary -- Clothing and the Boundaries of the Body in the Ancient Near East -- Clothing and Personhood in Biblical Texts -- David in Jonathan's Clothes -- David and the Cutting of Saul's kanap -- Ruth and the kanap of Boaz -- Haman and the Clothing of Kingship -- Zerubbabel, God's Signet -- 2: He Will Wash His Garments in Wine (Gen 49:11): Dress and Ritual -- Bodily Boundaries in Ritual Context -- Ritual and Clothing in the Ancient Near East -- Ritual Clothing in the Hebrew Bible -- Judah's Wine-Drenched Robes -- The High Priest's Filthy Garments -- Nehemiah's Shaken Sash -- Qoheleth's Cord of Death -- Spinning the Cloth of the Gods: Women as Ritual Experts -- Sewing Up the Sky: The Goddess of the Deir .Alla Plaster Inscription -- Women and Textiles in the Context of Fertility and Protection -- Women and Textiles in the Context of Mourning and Necromancy -- 3: Holy Garments for Glory and for Beauty (Exod 28:2): Dress and Identity -- Clothing as a Social Skin -- Clothing that Conceals and Reveals: Gendered Dress in the Stories of Pughat and Tamar -- Dressing the High Priest -- The High Priest and the Nation of Israel: Clothing a Corporate Body -- The Senses of Clothing: Priestly Garments and Power -- Obscuring Undergarments and Mixed Fabrics: Priestly Bodies and Access to the Divine -- 4: A Gold Ring in a Swine's Snout (Prov 11:22): Jewellery and Personal Religion. Dress, Adornment, and the Body in the Hebrew Bible is the first monograph to treat dress and adornment in biblical literature in the English language. It moves beyond a description of these aspects of ancient life to encompass notions of interpersonal relationships and personhood that underpin practices of dress and adornment. Laura Quick explores the ramifications of body adornment in the biblical world, informed by a methodologically plural approach incorporating material culture alongside philology, textual exegesis, comparative evidence, and sociological models. Drawing upon and synthesizing insights from material culture and texts from across the eastern Mediterranean, the volume reconstructs the social meanings attached to the dressed body in biblical texts. It shows how body adornment can deepen understanding of attitudes towards the self in the ancient world. In Quick's reconstruction of ancient performances of the self, the body serves as the observed centre in which complex ideologies of identity, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and social status are articulated. The adornment of the body is thus an effective means of non-verbal communication, but one which at the same time is controlled by and dictated through normative social values. Exploring dress, adornment, and the body can therefore open up hitherto unexplored perspectives on these social values in the ancient world, an essential missing piece in understanding the social and cultural world which shaped the Hebrew Bible |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (257 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-259887-5 |