Sexual Hospitality in the Hebrew Bible - Patronymic, Metronymic, Legitimate and Illegitimate Relations (Paperback, New)

Our Cultic Foremothers examines sacred sexuality, customs of ritual fecundity which may involve abstention, continence or promiscuity and require the relinquishing of individual control over one's body as offer to the demands of a transcendent entity. References to sacred sexuality as practiced around the ancient Mediterranean and Arabian Peninsula might be excavated from the layers of biblical texts. The Mosaic constitution outlaws pre-nuptial intercourse and adultery. Adversely, confluent customs of fertility and sacred sexuality render pre-nuptial intercourse and adultery imperative, thus challenging major objectives of patriarchal dominion. Relying on seminal research such as Robert Briffault The Mothers (1927), Raphael Patai Sex and Family in the Bible and the Middle East (1959) and Stephen Benko, The Virgin Goddess (1993) Gur-Klein highlights the existence of a richer, more pragmatic and more tolerant biblical community than previously imagined. The second part of the book inter-links the socio-materialistic conditions of biblical time to alternative culture and modes of behaviour of women. What socio-economic systems were women up against? How did they establish their position within the contemporary systems? Gur-Klein analyses women in the Book of Ruth both through Marxist binoculars and through an examination of patriarchy. Simulating society's superstructure with male kinship, patriarchy will eventually represent the family, clan, tribe and nation and vice versa; family, clan, tribe and nation turn into the legitimate embodiment of male kinship. Foregrounding male kinship as a superstructure, the critical queries are how and why Ruth and Naomi find themselves at the outskirtsof society; how two sonless widows climb their way up the social ladder; what laws and customs enhance or hinder their ascend; and in what way and why the two women eventually turn to alternative modes of behaviour that allude to sacred sexuality.

General

Imprint:	Equinox Publishing Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Gender, Theology and Spirituality
Release date:	July 2007
First published:	2013
Authors:	Thalia Gur Klein
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Cloth over boards
Pages:	400
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-84553-105-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism
LSN:	1-84553-105-1
Barcode:	9781845531058

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