Hair in the Bible and in ancient Egyptian culture: cultural and private connotations
In Ancient Egypt, hair served as a code to indicate social status, testifying to class, gender, and age, and reinforcing an elitist conception of the order of existence. In the Bible, however, hair transmitted a message relating to the life of the person as an individual, and it indicated an inner p...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2005
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| In: |
Biblische Notizen
Year: 2005, Volume: 125, Pages: 75-94 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Egypt (Antiquity)
/ Hair
/ Old Testament
B Egypt (Antiquity) / Culture |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture HB Old Testament TC Pre-Christian history ; Ancient Near East |
| Further subjects: | B
Bible
B Anthropology |
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Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | In Ancient Egypt, hair served as a code to indicate social status, testifying to class, gender, and age, and reinforcing an elitist conception of the order of existence. In the Bible, however, hair transmitted a message relating to the life of the person as an individual, and it indicated an inner psychological processes experienced by that person. This article will emphasize the variations of the message that was conveyed by hair in Egypt as compared to the Bible. Im antiken Ägypten war das Haar ein Statussymbol, an dem sich der gesellschaftliche Stand, das Geschlecht und das Alter ablesen ließen; es unterschied das elitäre Weltbild, das der Ordnung der Dinge zugrunde lag. In der Bibel dagegen gab das Haar Auskünfte über den Einzelnen als Privatperson und über sein seelisches Innenleben. Dieser Aufsatz vergleicht die verschiedenen Funktionen, die das Haar in Ägypten und in der Bibel erfüllte. |
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| Access: | [DE-21]Open Access |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Biblische Notizen
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.71715/bn.v125i.98013 |
