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Heroic Bodies in Ancient Israel (Hardcover)
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Heroic Bodies in Ancient Israel (Hardcover)
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Authors from the ancient world rarely used great detail to describe
the physical features of characters in their works. When they did
mention bodies, they did so with very specific goals in mind. In
particular, the bodies of "heroic" figures, such as warriors,
kings, and other leaders became loaded sites of meaning for
encoding cultural, religious, and political values on a number of
fronts. Brian Doak analyzes the way biblical authors described the
bodies of some of their most iconic male figures, such as Jacob,
the Judges, Saul, and David. These bodies represent not mere
individuals-they communicate as national bodies, signaling the
ambiguity of Israel's murky pre-history, the division during the
period of settlement in the land, and the contest of leading bodies
fought between Saul and David. Heroic Bodies in Ancient Israel
examines the heroic world of ancient Israel within the Hebrew
Bible, and shows that ancient Israelite literature operated within
and against a world of heroic ideals in its ancient context. The
heroic body tells a story of Israel's remembered history in the
eventual making of the monarchy, marking a new kind of individual
power. Not merely a textual study of the Hebrew Bible in isolation,
this book also considers iconography and compares Israelite
literature with other ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern
materials, illustrating Israel's place among a wider construction
of heroic bodies.
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