Silent or Salient Gender?: The Interpretation of Gendered - download pdf or read online

By Hanne Loland

ISBN-10: 3161497058

ISBN-13: 9783161497056

Hanne Løland stories gendered god-language within the Hebrew Bible. She bargains a theoretical framework that's priceless for the translation of biblical language utilized in connection with God and for the wider theological and scholarly debate on God and gender. one of many major questions Løland discusses is whether or not and the way gende r is salient - that's, of value - whilst gendered god-language happens in a textual content. it is a new line of wondering in Hebrew Bible learn, which up to now has been ordinarily thinking about mapping the occurrences of female god-language. The query of gender value is debated either in theoretical discussions on God, gender and language, and in 3 case reports (Isa 42:13-14, 46:3-4, and 49:14-15). those texts are selected basically as a result of present day study state of affairs, the place there was a declare that Isa 40-55 (or 40-66) differs from the remainder of the Hebrew Bible in its use of female god-language. Løland argues that there's in precept no distinction among god-language formulated in similes or metaphors. extra, there's no major distinction among female and male god-language within the Hebrew Bible. those findings also are suitable for the modern debate referring to god-language in academia, church, and synagogue.
This quantity used to be well-known with the loo Templeton Award for Theological Promise in 2008.

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