Vulnerability and valour : a gendered analysis of everyday life in the Dead Sea scrolls communities /
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| Author / Creator: | Keady, Jessica M., author. |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017. |
| Description: | vii, 204 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Library of Second Temple studies ; 91 Library of Second Temple studies ; 91. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11032836 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- 1. Setting the Scene
- 2. Methods Used in This Book
- 3. Definition of Key Terminology
- 4. The Contents of This Book
- Chapter 2. The Debate About Purity and Impurity in the Dead Sea Scrolls
- 1. The Purpose of This Chapter
- 2. Dead Sea Scrolls Scholarship on the Role of Purity and the Perceptions of Women from 1947 to 1969
- 3. Dead Sea Scrolls Scholarship on the Role of Purity and the Perceptions of Women from 1970 to 1989
- 4. Dead Sea Scrolls Scholarship on the Role of Purity and the Perceptions of Women from 1990 to the Present
- 5. Summary
- Chapter 3. Purity and Impurity in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Masculinity, Embodiment and the Everyday as Methodological Tools
- 1. The Purpose of This Chapter
- 2. Masculinity Studies as a Methodological Tool
- 3. Towards an Embodied Methodology
- 4. Theorizing the Everyday
- 5. Summary: Moving Beyond the Abstract
- Chapter 4. Masculinity Studies and the Men of the Dead Sea Scrolls Communities
- 1. The Purpose of This Chapter
- 2. The Rule of the Community (in Its 1QS Form) and Masculinity
- 3. Masculinity, Purity and Warfare in the War Scroll (in Its 1QM Form)
- 4. Summary: Purity, Shame and Honour- The Constructions of Masculinist Ideologies in the Rule of the Community and the War Scroll
- Chapter 5. Thinking Beyond the Abstract: Towards an Embodied Reading of Purity In 4QD g (4Q272), 4QD 4 (4Q266) AND 4QTOHOROT A (4Q274)
- 1. The Purpose of This Chapter
- 2. Men and Women IN their Daily Lives: Towards a Reconsideration of Masculinity and Femininity in 4QD
- 3. Uncovering the Everyday in the Dead Sea Scrolls Communities: An Engendered and Embodied Analysis of 4Q272 and 4Q266
- 4. The Constructions of the Impure Male and Female in 4QTohorot A (4Q274)
- 5. Reading Purity and Impurity in 4Q274: Towards Embodied Social Realities
- 6. Summary: Towards an Embodied and Everyday Understanding of Purity
- Chapter 6. Everyday Living and the Constructions of Spatial Privacy in the Dead Sea Scrolls Communities Focusing on the Temple Scroll (11QT
- 1. The Purpose of This Chapter
- 2. Mundane Reality in the Everyday World
- 3. Purity Laws at the Routine Level Within the Dead Sea Scrolls Communities: The Rule of the Congregation (1QSa) and Gender
- 4. Rituals and the Consequences for Rule Breaking
- 5. Summary: Everyday Living and Privacy at the Mundane, Routine and Rule Breaking Level
- Chapter 7. Conclusion: Beyond an Abstract Reading of Purity
- Bibliography
- Index of References
- Index of Authors