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On Femininities in the Song of Songs and Beyond

“The Most Beautiful Woman”

By: Vita Daphna Arbel

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On Femininities in the Song of Songs and Beyond

“The Most Beautiful Woman”

By: Vita Daphna Arbel

Vita Daphna Arbel uses critical theories of gender to offer an alternative reading of the multilayered conceptualization of the Song of Song's feminine protagonist: “the most beautiful woman”. Arbel treats “the most beautiful woman” as a culturally constructed and performed representation of “woman,” and situates this representation within the cultural-discursive contexts in which the Song partly emerged. She examines the gender norms and cultural ideologies it both reflects and constructs, and considers the manner in which this complex representation disrupts rigid, ahistorical notions of femininity, and how it consequently indirectly characterizes “womanhood” as dynamic and diverse. Finally, Arbel examines the reception and impact of these ideas on later conceptualizations of the Song of Songs' female protagonist with a heuristic examination of Mark Chagall's Song of Songs painting cycle, Le Cantique des Cantiques. These compositions-selected for their diverse depictions of the Song's protagonist, their impact on European art, and their vast popularity and bearing in the broader cultural imagination-illustrate a fascinating dialogue between the present and the past about the “most beautiful woman” and about multiple femininities.

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0567700070

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Beholders of Divine Secrets

Mysticism and Myth in the Hekhalot and Merkavah Literature

By: Vita Daphna Arbel

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Beholders of Divine Secrets

Mysticism and Myth in the Hekhalot and Merkavah Literature

By: Vita Daphna Arbel

Beholders of Divine Secrets provides a fascinating exploration of the enigmatic Hekhalot and Merkavah literature, the Jewish mystical writings of late antiquity. Vita Daphna Arbel delves into the unique nature of the mystical teachings, experiences, revelations, and spiritual exegesis presented in this literature. While previous scholarship has demonstrated the connection between Hekhalot and Merkavah mysticism and parallel traditions in Rabbinical writings, the Dead Sea Scrolls, apocalyptic, early Christian, and Gnostic sources, this work points out additional mythological traditions that resonate in this literature. Arbel suggests that mythological patterns of expression, as well as themes and models rooted in Near Eastern mythological traditions are employed, in a spiritualized fashion, to communicate mystical content. The possible cultural and social context of the Hekhalot and Merkavah mysticism and its composers is discussed.

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State University of New York Press

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0791486850

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Forming Femininity in Antiquity

Eve, Gender, and Ideologies in the Greek Life of Adam and Eve

By: Vita Daphna Arbel

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Eve, Gender, and Ideologies in the Greek Life of Adam and Eve

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Vita Daphna Arbel investigates depictions of the emblematic Eve that are embedded in one of the most influential accounts of Adam and Eve after the Hebrew Bible, namely the apocryphal Greek Life of Adam and Eve (GLAE) from late antiquity.

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OUP USA

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0199837775

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Forming Femininity in Antiquity

Eve, Gender, and Ideologies in the Greek Life of Adam and Eve

By: Vita Daphna Arbel

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Eve, Gender, and Ideologies in the Greek Life of Adam and Eve

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On Femininities in the Song of Songs and Beyond

“The Most Beautiful Woman”

By: Vita Daphna Arbel

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“The Most Beautiful Woman”

By: Vita Daphna Arbel

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Beholders of Divine Secrets

Mysticism and Myth in the Hekhalot and Merkavah Literature

By: Vita Daphna Arbel

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Mysticism and Myth in the Hekhalot and Merkavah Literature

By: Vita Daphna Arbel

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State University of New York Press

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Book's by Vita Daphna Arbel

On Femininities in the Song of Songs and Beyond

On Femininities in the Song of Songs and Beyond

Beholders of Divine Secrets

Beholders of Divine Secrets

Forming Femininity in Antiquity

Forming Femininity in Antiquity

Forming Femininity in Antiquity

Forming Femininity in Antiquity

On Femininities in the Song of Songs and Beyond

On Femininities in the Song of Songs and Beyond

Beholders of Divine Secrets

Beholders of Divine Secrets

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