The ideal body in the Hebrew Bible compared to that in transpersonal psychology
Despite the Hebrew Bible’s canonicity it does not present a single picture of the ideal body, ranging from texts from the Priestly Source to the Song of Songs and the way the body of God has been portrayed. Its response to and interaction with pluralistic postmodern searching for the ideal, such as...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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2018
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| In: |
Journal for semitics
Year: 2018, Volume: 27, Issue: 2, Pages: 1-18 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Anthropology
/ Body
/ Humanism
/ Psychology
/ Ideal (motif)
/ The Postmodern
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Postmodernism
B Hebrew Bible B Transhumanism B Transpersonal Psychology B Ideal (motif) B Superhumanism B Body B Posthumanism |
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| Summary: | Despite the Hebrew Bible’s canonicity it does not present a single picture of the ideal body, ranging from texts from the Priestly Source to the Song of Songs and the way the body of God has been portrayed. Its response to and interaction with pluralistic postmodern searching for the ideal, such as in trans-, super- and posthumanism, are therefore a complex struggle which transpersonal psychology can clarify, even if it cannot resolve it. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for semitics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.25159/1013-8471/4135 HDL: 10520/EJC-12280529c6 |