Ethnology, Volume 39University of Pittsburgh, 2000 - Anthropology |
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... moon itself is a vital figure in a dialogue with God . Personified , it becomes a key symbol in Jewish mythology that is multivalent and can be interpreted in numerous ways . A contemporary myth about the moon and its ritual context is ...
... moon itself is a vital figure in a dialogue with God . Personified , it becomes a key symbol in Jewish mythology that is multivalent and can be interpreted in numerous ways . A contemporary myth about the moon and its ritual context is ...
Page 271
... moon and the sun arises from God's punishment of the moon for implicitly criticizing God's creation scheme . To be sure , God is said to regret the punishment visited upon the moon and offers the moon compensation , which is rejected by ...
... moon and the sun arises from God's punishment of the moon for implicitly criticizing God's creation scheme . To be sure , God is said to regret the punishment visited upon the moon and offers the moon compensation , which is rejected by ...
Page 272
... moon is now explicitly female . Second , the questions framed by the moon are couched in a stark , gnostic - like dualism . Creation , the moon asserts , is characterized by both duality and hierarchy : this world and the world to come ...
... moon is now explicitly female . Second , the questions framed by the moon are couched in a stark , gnostic - like dualism . Creation , the moon asserts , is characterized by both duality and hierarchy : this world and the world to come ...
Contents
The Spirit of the Gift | 15 |
An Examination | 73 |
Negotiating | 93 |
Copyright | |
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