English description: This volume consists of fifteen of the authors
essays, including two that have never been published before. The
essays date to the last decade and a half, and all reflect in some
manner the authors ongoing interest in literary operations of
classification and their social implications, particularly the
production of distinctions which create social inequality in the
world of the text, and have the potential to generate hierarchical
social relationships in contexts where biblical texts might have
had an impact on real people. 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 authors on going
interest in the textual representation of ritual. Most of the
essays examine texts in their historical setting, but several also
engage the early history of the interpretation of biblical texts,
including the phenomenon of inner biblical exegesis. The essays are
divided into five sections: Rites and Social Status; Gender and
Sexuality; Disability; Holiness, Purity, the Alien; Death, Burial,
Afterlife and their Metaphorical Uses. The author introduces each
of the sections, contextualizing each essay in his larger scholarly
project, reflecting on its development and reception and, in some
cases, responding to his critics. German description: Der
vorliegende Band beinhaltet 15, z.T. noch unveroffentlichte
Aufsatze von Saul M. Olyan. Der Autor beschaftigt sich mit
Klassifikationen in biblischen Texten und ihren sozialen
Auswirkungen. Besonders widmet er sich den Klassifizierungen die
Ungleichheiten in der Umwelt des Textes hervorrufen.Solche
Unterschiede sind zum Beispiel mannlich/weiblich, tot/lebendig,
fremd/einheimisch oder rein/unrein. Die Artikel beschaftigen sich
dabei mit biblischen Texten, die von der Konigszeit uber das Exil
bis hin zur romischen Epche datiert werden.Dabei legt Olyan ein
besonderes Augenmerk auf die Menschen, die bei diesen
Unterscheidungen die minderwertige Rolle spielen oder gar ganz von
der Gemeinschaft ausgeschlossen sind. Einen weiteren Schwerpunkt
stellen Ubergangsriten dar, die einen Wechsel des Status markieren,
z.B. Beschneidung, Rasur, Bestattung.
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