Hermeneutics of Holiness
Ancient Jewish and Christian Notions of Sexuality and Religious Community
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 14 October 2010
- ISBN 9780199736485
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 165x241x25 mm
- Weight 610 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book tells the story of how the biblical notions of 'holy person' or 'holy community' comes to be defined by sexual and marriage practices by various interpretive communities in late antiquity. Tracing this development from the biblical texts into the fourth century, Koltun-Fromm argues that sexual practices among Jews and Christians, particularly ascetic sexual practices, are rooted in the history of biblical exegesis and tradition as much as in any other late ancient phenomena.
MoreLong description:
This book tells the story of how the biblical notions of 'holy person' or 'holy community' comes to be defined by sexual and marriage practices by various interpretive communities in late antiquity. Koltun-Fromm argues that the biblical texts already create a link between holiness and sexuality which is further interpreted by later readers. Tracing this development from the biblical texts into the fourth century, she suggests that sexual practices among Jews and Christians, particularly ascetic sexual practices, are rooted in the history of biblical exegesis and tradition as much as in any other late ancient phenomena. Moreover holiness as sexual practice thus helped these groups demarcate differentiation from each other. Hence this book establishes the importance of biblical interpretation for late ancient Jewish and Christian practices, the centrality of holiness as a category for self definition, and fourth-century asceticism's relationship to biblical texts and interpretive history.
Committed first-century sectarians, apocalyptic ascetics, Persian Christians, and Babylonian Jews: Koltun-Fromm ranges across a vast historical terrain as she seeks to understand how these various ancient peoples enacted holiness by hearing in the Bible a call to sexual renunciation. This is a riveting story, and a historical tour de force.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I
In the Beginning: Holiness in the Bible
Holy Seed or Holy Deed: Sexuality between Holiness and Purity in Second Temple Literature
Part II
Holiness Perfected: Pauline Constructs of Holy Community
"Mother-City of All Evils:" Sexuality vs. Holiness in Early Syriac Christian Literature
Part III
Wedding Garments and Holy Yokes: Celibacy and Holiness in Aphrahat the Persian Sage
Zipporah's Complaint: Moses is Not Conscientious in the Deed: Exegetical Traditions of Moses' Celibacy
Sanctify Yourself: Rabbinic Notions of Holiness and Sexuality
Conclusion
