Bodies, Embodiment, and Theology of the Hebrew Bible

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567688305
• ISBN13: 9780567688309
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"