Olyan, Saul M.: Social Inequality in the World of the Text

The Significance of Ritual and Social Distinctions in the Hebrew Bible. This volume consists of fifteen of the author's essays. In these essays, the author explores themes such as gender, sexuality, purity and pollution, sanctification, death and afterlife, foreignness, and disability with particular attention to the roles distinctions such as honored/shamed, feminine/masculine, mourning/rejoicing, unclean/clean, alien/native play in creating and perpetuating social differences in texts. Rites of status change such as circumcision, shaving, purification, burial or disinterment, sanctification and profanation of holiness are a focus of interest in a number of these essays, reflecting the author's on going interest in the textual representation of ritual. 240 Seiten, gebunden (Journal of Ancient Judaism. Supplements; Vol. 4/Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2011) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear

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