'Your Hair is the Hair of Men': Gender Discord and Depilatories in the Reception History of the Queen of Sheba

Out of the crucible of Jewish and Islamic imaginative retellings of the encounter between the Queen of Sheba and Solomon in 1 Kgs 10:1-13 emerged an etiological myth which describes the invention of depilatory creams. Drawing on contemporaneous written sources concerning the body's production o...

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Main Author: Rees, Susannah (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: The National Association of Professors of Hebrew 2022
In: Hebrew studies
Year: 2022, Volume: 63, Pages: 55-77
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Solomon Israel, King / Hygiene / Bible. Könige 1. 10,1-13
IxTheo Classification:HB Old Testament
HH Archaeology
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