Bodies, Embodiment, and Theology of the Hebrew Bible (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testamen)
Bodies, Embodiment, and Theology of the Hebrew Bible (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testamen) by S. Tamar Kamionkowski
English | May 20, 2010 | ISBN: 056754799X | 272 Pages | PDF | 1.63 MB
English | May 20, 2010 | ISBN: 056754799X | 272 Pages | PDF | 1.63 MB
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.