(Per)mutations of Qohelet: Reading the Body in the BookBloomsbury Publishing USA, 2006 M07 1 - 152 páginas (Per)mutations of Qohelet explores the question, Who is Qohelet? Rather than peering behind or through the text to answer this question in terms of authorship, Koosed analyzes the identity that is created through the words on the page. The text is not a transparent medium connecting reader with author; instead, it is an opaque body - it has weight, substance, skin. Koosed begins with an analysis of the ways in which words construct identities and the reasons why words can affect us so profoundly, relying primarily on the work of Judith Butler and Elaine Scarry. She then explores autobiography and how the genre of autobiography - as reconfigured by Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida - relates to Qohelet. These two chapters then set the framework for what follows: an analysis of the various bodily organs and sensations contained within the book of Qohelet. The body is embedded in the text through the naming of body parts (eye, hand, heart). And this same body is encoded in form, structure, and syntax, so that the text becomes a body with organs, systems, and even a life of its own. The book is a body and the book speaks of bodies. It speaks of the body's organs and senses; it concerns itself with the pleasures and pains of the body, the gendered body, the dying body. Finally, the ritual body is highlighted in the final passage of this enigmatic book. |
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Reading the Body in the Book Jennifer L. Koosed. CONTENTS Acknowledgments Abbreviations Chapter 1 INTRODUCING QOHELET The Body in the Book Body Definition Summary of Order Chapter 2 CALLING QOHELET NAMES What's in a Name ? Genre Games ...
Reading the Body in the Book Jennifer L. Koosed. CONTENTS Acknowledgments Abbreviations Chapter 1 INTRODUCING QOHELET The Body in the Book Body Definition Summary of Order Chapter 2 CALLING QOHELET NAMES What's in a Name ? Genre Games ...
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Reading the Body in the Book Jennifer L. Koosed. Chapter 6 DECOMPOSING QOHELET Qohelet's Vigil " The Riddle of the Sphinx " The Conqueror Worm The Gift of Death 88 88 91 94 100 Chapter 7 READING THE EPILOGUE THROUGH THIS BODY 103 A ...
Reading the Body in the Book Jennifer L. Koosed. Chapter 6 DECOMPOSING QOHELET Qohelet's Vigil " The Riddle of the Sphinx " The Conqueror Worm The Gift of Death 88 88 91 94 100 Chapter 7 READING THE EPILOGUE THROUGH THIS BODY 103 A ...
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... reader , Renita J. Weems . The other members were Douglas A. Knight , Jack Sasson , Amy - Jill Levine , and Idit ... reading of Robert Paul Seesengood . Thank you for all the conversations and for seeing possibilities in my work that ...
... reader , Renita J. Weems . The other members were Douglas A. Knight , Jack Sasson , Amy - Jill Levine , and Idit ... reading of Robert Paul Seesengood . Thank you for all the conversations and for seeing possibilities in my work that ...
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Reading the Body in the Book Jennifer L. Koosed. Chapter 1 INTRODUCING QOHELET CRITIC : A. Scribere ( Latin ) : to ... readers . Although it is a part of the Hebrew Bible's Wisdom corpus , it is ambivalent even about this core theme ...
Reading the Body in the Book Jennifer L. Koosed. Chapter 1 INTRODUCING QOHELET CRITIC : A. Scribere ( Latin ) : to ... readers . Although it is a part of the Hebrew Bible's Wisdom corpus , it is ambivalent even about this core theme ...
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Reading the Body in the Book Jennifer L. Koosed. with words of Torah and it ends with words of Torah . " 3 What worried the rabbis has continued to worry modern scholars , thereby prompting James Crenshaw to declare that the essential ...
Reading the Body in the Book Jennifer L. Koosed. with words of Torah and it ends with words of Torah . " 3 What worried the rabbis has continued to worry modern scholars , thereby prompting James Crenshaw to declare that the essential ...
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Chapter 3 FRAGMENTS OF QOHELETS BODY | 34 |
Chapter 4 QOHELET IN PLEASURE AND PAIN | 53 |
Chapter 5 IN LOVE AND GENDER TROUBLE | 74 |
Chapter 6 DECOMPOSING QOHELET | 88 |
Chapter 7 READING THE EPILOGUE THROUGH THIS BODY | 103 |
Chapter 8 DEPARTURES | 122 |
Bibliography | 124 |
Index of References | 134 |
Index of Authors | 138 |
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(Per)mutations of Qohelet: Reading the Body in the Book Jennifer L. Koosed Vista previa limitada - 2006 |
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