Marginal(ized) Prospects Through Biblical Ritual And Law: Lections From The Threshold Marginalized Prospects Through Biblical Ritual And Law

This book follows a reader’s logic of association through a series of overlapping constructs in biblical prescription of things prized and lofty-holy hair, unblemished beasts, sacred edibles, wholesome wombs, pristine precincts, esteemed ethnicities and, as unlikely as it seems, dismembered members. Thoroughly intersectional in disposition, Bernon Lee uncovers not just the precariousness of the contrived dichotomies through the identity-building sacred texts, but also the complexities and contentions of a would-be decolonizing hermeneutic bristling with its own tensions and temptations. This volume is an intertextual odyssey through law and ritual from impassioned positions fraught with ambivalence, reticence, and anxiety -- Back cover Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Introduction: A Prologue to Wandering ....Pages 1-24 Staying In: The Moses-God Exchanges on the Passover....Pages 25-54 On Sacred Heads and Sullied Wombs: Bouncing Between Leviticus and Numbers....Pages 55-106 On Bad Sex and Bad Seed: Doubting Deuteronomy....Pages 107-153 Coming Home: Through the Doors of Ephraim and Egypt....Pages 155-209 Epilogue: Scenes from Afar....Pages 211-215 Back Matter....Pages 217-221 Introduction: A Prologue To Wandering -- Staying In: The Moses-god Exchanges On The Passover -- On Sacred Heads And Sullied Wombs: Bouncing Between Leviticus And Numbers -- On Bad Sex And Bad Seed: Doubting Deuteronomy -- Coming Home: Through The Doors Of Ephraim And Egypt -- Epilogue: Scenes From Afar. Bernon Lee. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.