"Black I am and Comely": Blackness and Whiteness as Part of Jewish Racial Discourses From Modern Times to Antiquity - And Where is the Place of the Song of Songs in All This?
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angličtina
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"Black I am and Comely": Blackness and Whiteness as Part of Jewish Racial Discourses From Modern Times to Antiquity - And Where is the Place of the Song of Songs in All This?
Original language description
This contribution deals with the semiotization of the Jewish body in general, and the semiotization of skin colour in particular. Acts of such semiotization might have originated in the Non-Jewish environment and are to a large extent coextensive with the history of anti-Judaism and antiSemitism, but they have also been cherished by Jewish cultures. Bible scholars seem purposefully to avoid or to dispel any racial connotations implicit in the description of Shulamit's skin colour, generally regarding them as anachronistic to the time of the poem's composition. Nevertheless, in what follows I argue for the necessity to confront the Song of Songs with the existence of forms of (proto)-racism in the Greco-Roman period, takinginto account the research on this topic in the past decade, which undoubtedly deserves a due attention by the Old Testament discipline.
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C - Chapter in a specialist book
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OECD FORD branch
60304 - Religious studies
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
The Song of Songs Afresh: Perspectives on a Biblical Love Poem
ISBN
978-1-910928-57-8
Number of pages of the result
29
Pages from-to
15-43
Number of pages of the book
309
Publisher name
Sheffied Phoenix Press
Place of publication
Sheffield, UK
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