Buch, Englisch, Band 41, 228 Seiten, Gewicht: 570 g
Reihe: SBL - Semeia Studies
Biblical Law on the Words of Women
Buch, Englisch, Band 41, 228 Seiten, Gewicht: 570 g
Reihe: SBL - Semeia Studies
ISBN: 978-90-04-12696-1
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers
Inspired by the transoceanic experiences of South Pacific islanders, Havea explores the circularity of vow-making and vow-breaking and performs a ' circumreading', 'reading around' and ' across' legal and narrative biblical texts. From Numbers 30, where women’s vows are regulated, to various narratives where women’s words are monitored, this circumreading exposes the ways in which words elude control and control eludes words within the world of the text and in the very act of reading itself and demonstrates an alternative “transtextual” way to read biblical law.
Paperback edition available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org).