Yoruba Girl Dancing: a Nigerian/British Women’s Reading of Herodias’s Daughter in Mark 6:17–28 and Matthew 14:3–12
This article seeks to offer a Nigerian/British women’s reading of Herodias’ daughter’s dance in Mark and Matthew by reading it alongside Simi Bedford’s Yoruba Girl Dancing. In this article, the dominant Western interpretation of Herodias’s daughter’s dance being erotic is shown to have been heavily...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Horizons in biblical theology
Year: 2025, Volume: 47, Issue: 1, Pages: 45-71 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Matthäusevangelium 14,3-12
/ Bible. Markusevangelium 6,16-28
/ Woman
/ Dance
/ Exegesis
/ Bedford, Simi 1941-
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| IxTheo Classification: | FD Contextual theology HC New Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Yoruba Girl Dancing (1994)
B dancing B Herodias’s daughter B Mark 6:17–28 B Matthew 14:3–12 B Simi Bedford B British women’s interpretation / Nigerian |
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