Life and Death: Social Perspectives on Biblical Bodies

by Francesca Stavrakopoulou

Book Overview

Life and Death: Social Perspectives on Biblical Bodies explores some of the social, material, and ideological dynamics shaping life and death in both the Hebrew Bible and ancient Israel and Judah. Analysing topics ranging from the bodily realities of gestation, subsistence, and death, and embodied performances of gender, power, and status, to the imagined realities of post-mortem and divine existence, the essays in this volume offer exciting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567656721
• ISBN13: 9780567656728
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"