Dress, Adornment, and the Body in the Hebrew Bible
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 9 February 2021
- ISBN 9780198856818
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages254 pages
- Size 240x164x20 mm
- Weight 530 g
- Language English 136
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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, moving beyond a description of these aspects of ancient life to encompass notions of interpersonal relationships and personhood.
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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.
This is the type of book that can and does revolutionize scholarly research in the Hebrew Bible. I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who is interested in fresh and exciting approaches to the Hebrew Bible. I expect Quick's scholarship to be quoted widely in subsequent research on this topic.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Dress and Adornment at the Intersection of Material Culture and Embodiment
Part I: Dress
Spread the Hem of Your Cloak Over Me (Ruth 3:9): Dress and the Body
He Will Wash His Garments in Wine (Gen. 49:11): Dress and Ritual
Holy Garments for Glory and for Beauty (Ex. 28:3): Dress and Identity
Part II: Adornment
A Gold Ring in a Swine's Snout (Prov. 11:22): Jewellery and Personal Religion
She Painted Her Eyes and Looked Out of the Window (2 Kgs 9:30): Cosmetics and the Other
Through a Glass, Darkly (1 Cor. 13:12): Mirrors and the Self
Conclusions
Bibliography
Subject Index
Index of Primary Sources
Index of Modern Authors
