Social Inequality in the World of the Text The Significance of
Ritual and Social Distinctions in the Hebrew Bible 1. Edition
2011 Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Journal of Ancient Judaism.
Supplements - |PDF eBook||64,99 €| This volume consists of
fifteen of the author’s 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 author’s 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, u