(Per)mutations of Qohelet [electronic resource] : reading the body in the book / Jennifer L. Koosed.
Material type: TextSeries: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 429. | T & T Clark library of biblical studiesPublication details: New York : T & T Clark, c2006.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 140 p.)ISBN:- 9780567401113 (electronic bk.)
- 0567401111 (electronic bk.)
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- BS1475.52 .K66 2006eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. [124]-133) and indexes.
Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 INTRODUCING QOHELET; Chapter 2 CALLING QOHELET NAMES; Chapter 3 FRAGMENTS OF QOHELET'S BODY; Chapter 4 QOHELET IN PLEASURE AND PAIN; Chapter 5 IN LOVE AND (GENDER) TROUBLE; Chapter 6 DECOMPOSING QOHELET; Chapter 7 READING THE EPILOGUE THROUGH THIS BODY; Chapter 8 DEPARTURES; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors.
(Per)mutations of Qohelet explores the question, Who is Qohelet? Rather than peering behind or through the text to answer this question in terms of authorship, Koosed analyzes the identity that is created through the words on the page. The text is not a transparent medium connecting reader with author; instead, it is an opaque body - it has weight, substance, skin. Koosed begins with an analysis of the ways in which words construct identities and the reasons why words can affect us so profoundly, relying primarily on the work of Judith Butler and Elaine Scarry. She then explores autobiography.
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