Body Language: Voice, Embodiment and Textuality in the Hebrew Bible - Couverture rigide

Vayntrub, Jacqueline

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0300230907 ISBN 13 : 9780300230901

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2026

Synopsis

A revelatory study of embodied voice and its function in biblical texts

Performance, transmission, and corporeality were essential to ancient understandings of textuality. Far more than an aide-mémoire, written text constituted a powerful mechanism for capturing and transmitting embodied vocal presence. In this bold and provocative book, Jacqueline Vayntrub demonstrates how embedded concepts of embodied speechmaking shaped a tradition of aesthetics and interpretation in the Hebrew Bible.

For authors and readers alike, biblical texts functioned as vessels containing voices for posterity, preserving otherwise fleeting moments of performance and transporting audiences into an idealized or stylized past. Through incisive readings of passages from diverse genres and examinations of the social and material dimensions of speech in the ancient Near East, Vayntrub offers a striking reconceptualization of the biblical authors’ understanding of literary craft.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jacqueline Vayntrub is associate professor of Hebrew Bible at Yale Divinity School and author of Beyond Orality: Biblical Poetry on Its Own Terms. She lives in New Haven, CT.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0300230907
• ISBN 13: 9780300230901
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible