Book
The Conceptualization of Dress in Prophetic Metaphors
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S.J. Parrott
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2023
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About this book
While the last four years has seen a renewed interest in dress in biblical studies, much of this work focuses on dress as object—what it is, looks like, and who wears it. In consequence, the symbolic and rhetorical function of dress in metaphors is often reduced to its function in “real life.” In response, this study bridges the conversation from what dress is to what dress is doing. By focusing on dress as subject and a concept, this study identifies constellations that hold prophetic metaphors of the investiture/divestiture of dress together with respect to identity formation/deformation, suffering, and destruction.
Author / Editor information
S.J. Parrott, Ph.D (2022), University of Oxford, is a postdoctoral researcher at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. Her most recent publication is in a volume on dress in the Hebrew Bible on the meaning and function of dress in Ezekiel 16:1-14 (T&T Clark, 2022).
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eBook published on:
June 19, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9789004677456
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Main content:
268
eBook ISBN:
9789004677456
Keywords for this book
Investiture; divestiture; dress; identity; clothing; suffering; destruction; transformation; shame; nakedness; perception; perspective; Jerusalem/Zion; city; boundaries
Audience(s) for this book
Readership includes (postgraduate) students and academics/scholars in Hebrew Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, and New Testament; academic libraries; specialists in the Hebrew Bible; theological institutions; relevant subject areas include Hebrew bible/Old Testament, theology, philology.
