Marriage and Metaphor

Marriage and Metaphor
Author :
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 304
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0739134256
ISBN-13 : 9780739134252
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Marriage and Metaphor by : Gail Susan Labovitz

Download or read book Marriage and Metaphor written by Gail Susan Labovitz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the opening of Mishnah Kiddushin, 'A woman is acquired (in marriage)...by money, by document, or by sexual intercourse, ' and using other examples of commercial language applied to marriage across the rabbinic canon, this work demonstrates that rabbis used information from the realm of property and commercial transactions to structure their understanding and reasoning about marriage and gender relations through a metaphor of women as ownable and marriage as a purchase or acquisition


Marriage and Metaphor Related Books

Marriage and Metaphor
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Gail Susan Labovitz
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Beginning with the opening of Mishnah Kiddushin, 'A woman is acquired (in marriage)...by money, by document, or by sexual intercourse, ' and using other example
Love and Violence
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Gerlinde Baumann
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Liturgical Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Review: "Love and Violence is a detailed study of the marriage metaphor in the prophetic books of the Hebrew Bible and a challenge to the use of that metaphor f
Queer Theory and the Prophetic Marriage Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible
Language: en
Pages: 264
Authors: Stuart Macwilliam
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-08 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Hebrew Bible offers a metaphor of marriage that portrays men and women as complementary, each with their distinct and 'natural' roles. Queer Theory and the
An Impossible Marriage
Language: en
Pages: 231
Authors: Laurie Krieg
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-27 - Publisher: InterVarsity Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Laurie and Matt Krieg are in a mixed-orientation marriage: Laurie is primarily attracted to women—and so is Matt. With vulnerability and wisdom, they tell the
Sexual and Marital Metaphors in Hosea, Jeremiah, Isaiah, and Ezekiel
Language: en
Pages: 330
Authors: Sharon Moughtin-Mumby
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-06-05 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Sharon Moughtin-Mumby considers the often unrecognised impact of different approaches to metaphor on readings of the prophtic sexual and marital metaphorical la