BODILY PARTS VYING FOR POWER: HIERARCHIES AND BODIES IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY

In this essay I argue that a rhetoric of the body exposes the all-pervasiveness of the hierarchical principle as it manifested itself in the Graeco-Roman world. The parts of the ancient body were constructed with the fabrics of the social body. Implications for an engendered interpretation of Biblic...

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Main Author: Vorster, Fika (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2002
In: Scriptura
Year: 2002, Volume: 80, Pages: 287-306
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