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Gender in the book of Ben Sira: puns, erotic poetry, and the Garden of Eden
Ellis, Teresa Ann
Ellis, Teresa Ann
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Fort Worth, TX : [Texas Christian University],
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2010
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The dissertation focuses on Hebrew texts of Ben Sira. Chapter 1 covers the chosen methodologies and provides examples to justify the separation of Greek and Hebrew sources. Chapter 2 presents a selective review of previous scholarship for gender theory and for social scientific methodologies, as these relate to the current project. Chapter 3 introduces taxonomic models of gender drawn from the Book of Ben Sira and from Greek sources. Chapter 4 delimits what "gender" means for the project. The application of theories of colonial influence and proverb performance results in a list of passages for extensive analysis. Chapter 5 begins the extensive analyses with passages that pertain to the figure of Wisdom, to male/female pairs, and to human females. Chapter 6 concludes the extensive analyses, featuring passages that relate to Eve and passages with erotic content. Chapter 7 reviews the results of the analyses and comments on them as a whole.
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Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Sex role Religious aspects.
Wisdom literature Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Erotic poetry.
Women in the Bible.
Sex role Religious aspects.
Wisdom literature Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Erotic poetry.
Women in the Bible.
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Brite Divinity School