Events for October 14, 2024 › Biblical Studies › – Princeton Theological Seminary

Landscape, Garden, Monster: Rethinking the Female Body in the Hebrew Bible

Theron Room, Theodore Sedgwick Wright Library 64 Mercer St

The 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 […]