‘Go, ask a woman's womb’: Birth and the Maternal Body as Sources of Revelation and Wisdom in 4 Ezra

The author of 4 Ezra makes significant and repeated use of several motifs related to birth, including barrenness, pregnancy, the womb, miscarriage, birth itself, fetuses, and lactation. These motifs have myriad pedagogical functions in the text, including imparting instruction about personal, nation...

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Main Author: Flannery, Frances (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2012
In: Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha
Year: 2012, Volume: 21, Issue: 3, Pages: 243-258
Further subjects:B Mother Zion
B Mother Earth
B Mysticism
B Womb
B Ritual Studies
B rite of passage
B City
B Birth
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