Wise, Strange and Holy: The Strange Woman and the Making of the Bible

Wise, Strange and Holy: The Strange Woman and the Making of the Bible
ISBN-10
056706350X
ISBN-13
9780567063502
Category
Religion
Pages
373
Language
English
Published
2000-08-01
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Author
Claudia V. Camp

Description

The relationship of the Strange Woman and Woman Wisdom, separate but inseparable in Proverbs 1-9, is the book's analytic starting point, becoming a hermeneutical lens for viewing other texts of strangeness-of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and cultic activity. Wisdom and strangeness mark the narratives of Samson and Solomon, while priestly literature sets strangeness against holiness. Miriam and Dinah, sisters of cultic eponyms Aaron and Levi, are Israelite women defiled or unclean, made strange. Priestly and wisdom constructions of gendered strangeness intersect, illuminating the ideologies of identity that develop in the postexilic period and that shape the beginnings of the biblical canon.

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