LEADER 04972nam 22007332 450 001 9910814424003321 005 20151005020622.0 010 $a1-107-35715-2 010 $a1-107-23367-4 010 $a1-107-34868-4 010 $a1-107-34128-0 010 $a1-107-34753-X 010 $a1-107-34503-0 010 $a1-139-04696-9 010 $a1-107-34378-X 035 $a(CKB)2550000001108217 035 $a(EBL)1139651 035 $a(OCoLC)854970712 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000950720 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12373747 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000950720 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10881625 035 $a(PQKB)11434757 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139046961 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1139651 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1139651 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10740504 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL508560 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001108217 100 $a20110304d2013|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSacrifice and gender in biblical law /$fNicole J. Ruane 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (xiv, 267 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-87724-5 311 $a1-299-77309-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aContents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Nancy Jay, Gender, and Sacrifice; Sacrifice; Biblical Law; Outline; 1 Womens Sacrificial Roles in Biblical Law; Women's Variable Status in Written Rituals; Women as Officiants; Women as Offerers; Communal Offerings; Personal Offerings; Women as Consumers; Women as Slaughterers; Conclusion; 2 Gender, Animals, and Sacrificial Victimology; Nomenclature; Public and Private Sacrifice; Gender and Hierarchy in Priestly Offerings; la?; lmi?m; "Most Holy" Offerings; Gender and Animal Husbandry; Reproduction and the Ritual Calendar 327 $aSacrifice and DomesticationMasculinity and Blemish; Conclusion; 3 Mothers, Milk, and Meat: The Exclusion of Motherhood from Sacrifice in Cultic Food Laws; Mothers and Sacrifice; "Feminized Protein" and the Sacrificial Cult; Mothers and Meat; Deuteronomy 22:6-7; Boiling a Kid in Its Mothers Milk; Exodus 22:29-30 and Leviticus 22:27-28; Conclusion; 4 Females and Death: The Sacred Impurity of the Red Cow; The Rite of the Cow; Part I: Sacrifice and the Creation of Impurity; The Red Cow and Sacrifice; The Red Cow as a at; The Elimination of Impurity; Part II: Gender Significance; at Offerings 327 $aThe Red Cow as a Female VictimWaters of Impurity; Redness and Blood; Sacred Impurity; Conclusion; 5 Impurity and the Creation of Difference; Purity and Sacrifice; The Nature of Ritual Impurity; Purity and Gender Hierarchy; Skin Disease and the Function of Impurity; Corpse Contamination: Embracing the Rejected; Leviticus 15; Sexuality as Sickness; Genital Substance versus Gender Role; Menstrual Sex and the Contagion of Gender; Childbirth; The Greatest Impurity; Circumcision; Sacrifice, Purity, and the Personhood of Mothers; Conclusion: Purity, Gender, and Sacrifice 327 $a6 Fathers and Firstlings: The Gendered Rhetoric of Child SacrificeIntroduction; Firstborn and Firstlings; Redemption and the Fictional Victim; The Female Firstborn; Fathers and Firstlings; Mothers as Offerers; Mothers and Mlek; Child Sacrifice and Fertility; Conclusion: Child Sacrifice and Animal Sacrifice; Conclusions; Bibliography; Biblical References Index; Subject Index 330 $aThis book examines the Hebrew Bible's numerous laws about sacrificial procedure to understand the significance of gender in sacrificial rituals and the reasons that gender distinctions are so vital in these acts. Gender selection of both victims and participants is an intrinsic aspect of the nature and purpose of each rite, affecting its form and function, as well as its legitimacy. Sacrifice and Gender in Biblical Law considers the laws of the firstborn, the rite of the red cow, laws of slaughter, rituals of purification, and other offerings. It shows that these laws regulate material wealth and contribute to the construction of social roles. 517 3 $aSacrifice & Gender in Biblical Law 606 $aSacrifice$xBiblical teaching 606 $aSex role$xBiblical teaching 606 $aGender identity in the Bible 606 $aAnimal sacrifice 615 0$aSacrifice$xBiblical teaching. 615 0$aSex role$xBiblical teaching. 615 0$aGender identity in the Bible. 615 0$aAnimal sacrifice. 676 $a296.4/92 700 $aRuane$b Nicole J.$f1970-$01709608 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814424003321 996 $aSacrifice and gender in biblical law$94099477 997 $aUNINA