Giving Birth to Knowledge: Creativity and Procreativity in Biblical Texts
This essay examines instances in the Hebrew Bible in which language of the womb and birth are used as metaphors for human intellective creativity. Informed by Christine Battersby’s classic work in feminist aesthetics, it argues that the female somatics of birth provides a conceptual motif for the cu...
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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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2023
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| In: |
Biblica
Year: 2023, Volume: 104, Issue: 2, Pages: 195-217 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Sprichwörter 8
/ Body
/ Birth
/ Metaphor
/ Arendt, Hannah 1906-1975
/ Wisdom
/ Creativity
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism HA Bible |
| Further subjects: | B
Battersby, Christine
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | This essay examines instances in the Hebrew Bible in which language of the womb and birth are used as metaphors for human intellective creativity. Informed by Christine Battersby’s classic work in feminist aesthetics, it argues that the female somatics of birth provides a conceptual motif for the cultural complex of human making, especially in moral censure, aesthetic contexts, and prophecy. After establishing the parameters of the metaphor, the essay reads Proverbs 8 with Hannah Arendt’s concept of 'natality', arguing that this poem about primordial wisdom offers a meditation on the emergence of thought itself. |
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| ISSN: | 2385-2062 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Biblica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/BIB.104.2.3292024 |
