By Camille Paglia
ISBN-10: 0307765563
ISBN-13: 9780307765567
The bestselling writer of Sexual Personae and intercourse, paintings, and American tradition is again with a fiery new number of essays on every little thing from paintings and famous person to homosexual activism, Lorena Bobbitt to invoice and Hillary. those essays have by no means seemed in booklet shape, and plenty of might be showing in print for the 1st time.
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McFarland, 2000), 242. 2. The Religious and Political Extra-text ofNahum Studies 39 is a wife, but having no economic or child raising function, she falls to the margins of society. She is seen as mobile and not tied to a dwelling place. 10 She constantly seeks out new lovers and situations to dominate. Frymer-Kensky writes that as a "free" woman Inanna seems to live the life of a young man going to war and having lovers. The goddess is "at the boundary of differences between men and women"11 and she can turn men into women and vice versa, an ability reflected in cross-dressing as part of her cultic festivals.
Issues 35 Berlin's observation that Zephaniah's interest seems to be the fall of cities and de-urbanization, alerts us to similar possibilities for Nahum. Raabe's proposal, that the OAN were warnings to Israelite listeners to steer away from desiring and imitating the gods and customs of other nations, is also significant and this possibility with regard to Nahum will be discussed below. While in this examination of Nahum, attention will be given to elements derived from divine warrior imagery and ancient Near Eastern mythology, and to connections with lamentation and treaty forms, I would be hesitant to assign to any one of these sources a dominant role in the creation of Nahum.
44. 31. Parpola, Assyrian Prophecies, xxi. 32. In late Assyrian times Ishtar of Nineveh was identified with Mulissu the spouse of Ashur. 4. See also E. , Assyria 1995, 339-58 (347). 33. Parpola, Assyrian Prophecies, xxvi. 34. P. , "Aspects of the Religion of the Israelite Monarchy: Biblical and Epigraphic Data," in Ancient Israelite Religion (ed. Patrick D. Miller, Paul D. Hanson and S. Dean McBride; Philadelphia: Fortress, 1987), 137-55 (148 [original emphasis]). 35. Parpola, Assyrian Prophecies, xxix.
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