Vetus Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus - Band 005
The ancient
Levant, Near East, and Mediterranean abounded in images of bodies. These
bodies, whether human or animal, explicitly gendered or ambiguously
rendered, shaped and reflected ancient concepts of power, status, and
identity. Scholarship has often read them through binary and modern
Western lenses, focusing on the female body as an object of the
interpreter’s gaze while neglecting masculinities, ambiguities, and
fluidities alike. The authors of this volume explore how visual media
construct but also destabilise gender across time, culture, and material
form by mapping visualizations of masculinity and femininity,
challenging binary models, and combining iconographic, archaeological,
epigraphic, and textual analyses. The contributions foreground the
visual as a vital historical source, one that not only complements but
also questions textual traditions, and highlights the materiality and
context of objects as key to understanding how gender came to matter in
the ancient world.
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