The Conceptualization of Dress in Prophetic Metaphors

S.J. Parrott, Ph.D (2022), University of Oxford, is a postdoctoral researcher at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. Her most recent publication is in a volume on dress in the Hebrew Bible on the meaning and function of dress in Ezekiel 16:1-14 (T&T Clark, 2022).

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1 Dress and Nakedness as Processes of the Self

 1 Introduction

 2 Dress and Perception Management: Research and Observations

 3 Nakedness, Self, and Shame

 4 Jerusalem as Woman, Body as Metaphor

 5 Considerations of Gender

 6 Covering and Uncovering the Body as a Source of Knowledge

 7 Making Meaning in Metaphor



2 Jeremiah 13:20–27: Deficient Perspective, Dismal Perception

 1 Introduction

 2 Text and Translation

 3 Overview of Dress in Jeremiah 13:20–27

 4 שׁולים: Skirt, Hem, or Something Else?

 5 The Removal of Jerusalem’s Skirt

 6 Uncovering in Exile

 7 An Incongruous Perception

 8 Conclusion



3 Ezekiel 16: The Performative Body as Invitation to Shame

 1 Introduction

 2 Metaphor in Ezekiel 16: Background, Foreground, Somewhere in the Middle

 3 Text and Translation

 4 Overview of Dress and Nakedness in Ezekiel 16:1–34

 5 Degrees of Nakedness

 6 Divestiture as Shaming Act

 7 The Performative Body: An Invitation to Shame

 8 Conclusion



4 Isaiah 52:1–2: Dress as Event and Means of Perception Management

 1 Introduction

 2 Text and Translation

 3 Overview of Dress in Isaiah 51–52

 4 Destruction versus Dress

 5 Dust and Chains No More

 6 Dress as Perception Management: Merleau-Ponty, Perception, and Attention

 7 Conclusion



5 Isaiah 61:10–11: Dress as Ritualization and Invitation to Transformation

 1 Introduction

 2 Text and Translation

 3 Overview of Dress in Isaiah 61

 4 Constitutive or Attributive?

 5 Dress and Ritual

 6 From Isaiah 61 to Isaiah 59

 7 Perceiving Ritualization

 8 Redefining the Boundaries of Body and City

 9 Conclusion



6 Conclusion: A Deeper Love for Reality



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