Landscape, Garden, Monster: Rethinking the Female Body in the Hebrew Bible
Theron Room, Theodore Sedgwick Wright Library 64 Mercer StThe Hebrew Bible is filled with peculiar, striking metaphorical representations of the female body. A woman is (like) a land or landscape. At the same time, the land itself is (like) a woman. The female body is a garden of delights—and certain landscapes of delight, like the garden of Eden and the Promised Land, are […]