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Dress Hermeneutics and the Hebrew Bible : "Let Your Garments Always Be Bright", Paperback / softback Book

Dress Hermeneutics and the Hebrew Bible : "Let Your Garments Always Be Bright" Paperback / softback

Edited by Dr Antonios (Pacific Lutheran University, USA) Finitsis

Part of the The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies series

Paperback / softback

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Antonios Finitsis and contributors continue their examination of dress and clothing in the Hebrew Bible in this collection of illuminating essays.

Straddling the divide between the material and the ideological, this book lends shape and texture to topics including social standing, agency, and the motif of cloth and clothing in Esther.

Essays also explore the function of dress metaphors in imprecatory Psalms, the symbolic function of headdresses, and the divine clothing of Adam and Eve and the hermeneutics of trauma recovery.

Together, the contributors continue to shape scholarly discourse on a growing body of scholarship on dress in the Bible. By turning their analytical gaze to this primary evidence, the contributors are able to reveal the social, psychological, aesthetic, ideological and symbolic meanings of dress in the Hebrew Bible, thereby producing insights into the literature and cultural world of the ancient Near East.

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