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Recognizing that human experience is very much influenced by
inhabiting bodies, the past decade has seen a surge in studies
about representation of bodies in religious experience and human
imaginations regarding the Divine. The understanding of embodiment
as central to human experience has made a big impact within
religious studies particularly in contemporary Christian theology,
feminist, cultural and ideological criticism and anthropological
approaches to the Hebrew Bible. Within the sub-field of theology of
the Hebrew Bible, the conversation is still dominated by
assumptions that the God of the Hebrew Bible does not have a body
and that embodiment of the divine is a new concept introduced
outside of the Hebrew Bible. To a great extent, the insights
regarding how body discourse can communicate information have not
yet been incorporated into theological studies.
This is the second volume of a two-volume set of essays devoted to
the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible. The essays take as their
foundation the exegetical methodology developed by Rolf P. Knierim
at the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity in Claremont,
California. The exegetical foundations of Knierim's methodology pay
special attention to the literary forms and conceptual
underpinnings of biblical texts. The result is an interpretive
method that combines a close reading of biblical texts with
contextual criticism to understand the theological perspective from
which the biblical texts were written. The sixteen essays in this
volume apply the method outlined in volume one to several biblical
texts ranging from Joshua 1-12 and its theology of extermination to
Leviticus 15 and its contrasting conceptual associations about
women. The contributors hope that their exegetical work and
theoretical reflection will continue to guide the course of Hebrew
Bible studies in the twenty-first century. Editors: Wonil Kim is
Assistant Professor of Old Testament Studies at La Sierra
University. Deborah Ellens is an independent scholar. Michael Floyd
is Professor of Old Testament at the Episcopal Seminary of the
Southwest. Marvin A. Sweeney is Professor of Hebrew Bible at
Claremont School of Theology and Professor of Religion at Claremont
Graduate University.
Recognizing that human experience is very much influenced by
inhabiting bodies, the past decade has seen a surge in studies
about representation of bodies in religious experience and human
imaginations regarding the Divine. The understanding of embodiment
as central to human experience has made a big impact within
religious studies particularly in contemporary Christian theology,
feminist, cultural and ideological criticism and anthropological
approaches to the Hebrew Bible. Within the sub-field of theology of
the Hebrew Bible, the conversation is still dominated by
assumptions that the God of the Hebrew Bible does not have a body
and that embodiment of the divine is a new concept introduced
outside of the Hebrew Bible. To a great extent, the insights
regarding how body discourse can communicate information have not
yet been incorporated into theological studies.
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