Finitsis (ed.), Dress Hermeneutics and the Hebrew Bible (T&T Clark)

NEW BOOK FROM BLOOMSBURY/T&T CLARK:

Dress Hermeneutics and the Hebrew Bible

"Let Your Garments Always Be Bright"

Antonios Finitsis (Anthology Editor)

Hardback
$115.00 $103.50

Ebook (PDF)
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Product details

Published Jun 16 2022
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 296
ISBN 9780567702685
Imprint T&T Clark
Illustrations 8 bw illus
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Series The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

Description

Antonios Finitsis and contributors continue their examination of dress and clothing in the Hebrew Bible in this collection of illuminating essays. Straddling the divide between the material and the ideological, this book lends shape and texture to topics including social standing, agency, and the motif of cloth and clothing in Esther. Essays also explore the function of dress metaphors in imprecatory Psalms, the symbolic function of headdresses, and the divine clothing of Adam and Eve and the hermeneutics of trauma recovery. Together, the contributors continue to shape scholarly discourse on a growing body of scholarship on dress in the Bible.

By turning their analytical gaze to this primary evidence, the contributors are able to reveal the social, psychological, aesthetic, ideological and symbolic meanings of dress in the Hebrew Bible, thereby producing insights into the literature and cultural world of the ancient Near East.

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