Vulnerability and valour : a gendered analysis of everyday life in the Dead Sea Scrolls communities /: a gendered analysis of everyday life in the Dead Sea Scrolls communities. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: By Jessica M. Keady.
• Authors: Keady, Jessica M
• Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright Page; 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.
• Publisher Details: New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 296.1/55; Purity, Ritual -- Judaism; Qumran community; RELIGION -- Judaism -- General; Purity, Ritual -- Judaism; Qumran community; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780567672254; 0567672255; 9780567672278; 0567672271
• Related ISBNs: 9780567672247; 0567672247; 9780567672261; 0567672263
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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