It takes the average reader 4 hours and 18 minutes to read Woman's Body and the Social Body in Hosea 1-2 by Alice A. Keefe
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Keefe's analysis dismantles the androcentric and theological assumptions which have determined the dominant reading of Hosea's metaphor of Israel as the adulterous wife of God. It shows how the projection of symbolic associations of women with nature, sexual temptation and sin have anachronistically determined this metaphor as referring to Israel's apostasy in a lurid 'fertility cult'. Against this reading, Keefe's study considers Hosea 1-2 in the context of the association of sexual transgression and social violence in biblical literature; in this light, Hosea's symbol of Israel as an...
Woman's Body and the Social Body in Hosea 1-2 by Alice A. Keefe is 254 pages long, and a total of 64,516 words.
This makes it 86% the length of the average book. It also has 79% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 52 minutes to read Woman's Body and the Social Body in Hosea 1-2 aloud.
Woman's Body and the Social Body in Hosea 1-2 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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