Sacrifice and Gender in Biblical Law

Author： Nicole J. Ruane;  

Publisher： Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year： 2013

E-ISBN: 9781316894972

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521877244

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780521877244

Subject： B971.1 Old Testament

Keyword： 宗教

Language： ENG

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This book examines the Hebrew Bible's numerous laws about sacrificial procedure to understand the significance of gender in sacrificial rituals. Examines the Hebrew Bible's laws about sacrificial procedure to understand the significance of gender in sacrificial rituals and why gender distinctions are vital in these acts. Gender selection of both victims and participants is an intrinsic aspect of the nature and purpose of each rite. The laws are a means of controlling material wealth and constructing social roles. Examines the Hebrew Bible's laws about sacrificial procedure to understand the significance of gender in sacrificial rituals and why gender distinctions are vital in these acts. Gender selection of both victims and participants is an intrinsic aspect of the nature and purpose of each rite. The laws are a means of controlling material wealth and constructing social roles. This 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. 1. Introduction; 2. Women's sacrificial roles in biblical law; 3. The gendered victimology of animal offerings; 4. Milk, meat, and mothers: the exclusion of mothers from sacrifice in cultic food laws; 5. Death and the female: the sacred impurity of the red cow; 6. Impurity and the creation of difference; 7. Fathers and firstlings; 8. Conclusion: child sacrifice and animal sacrifice. '… Sacrifice and Gender in Biblical Law offers a broad investigation of the relationship between the two categories named in the title. Ruane is a close and observant reader of texts, and is careful to ground her readings in both textual scholarship and theories of sacrifice … a valuable contribution to scholarship on gender in ancient Israel.' Rhiannon Graybill, Biblical Interpretation

Chapter

Contents

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

lâ

lmîm

“Most Holy” Offerings

Gender and Animal Husbandry

Reproduction and the Ritual Calendar

Sacrifice and Domestication

Masculinity 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

The Red Cow as a Female Victim

Waters 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

6 Fathers and Firstlings: The Gendered Rhetoric of Child Sacrifice

Introduction

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

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