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Gender and Iconography in Antiquity

Femininities, Masculinities, Ambiguities, and Beyond in the Ancient Levant, Near East, and Mediterranean

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvBruno Biermann,Laura Gonnermann,Izaak Jozias de Hulster

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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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Utgivningsdatum2026-05-11
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieVetus Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus
Antal sidor319
FörlagVandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG
ISBN9783525573716

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Bruno Biermann is a PostDoc Assistant in Hebrew Bible at the Protestant Theological Faculty, University of Münster. He holds a PhD in Hebrew Bible from the University of Bern and a Diploma (MA) in Protestant Theology from the University of Tübingen. His research centers on the Hebrew Bible and Archaeology of the southern Levant, particularly social history and the history of religion\s of the Bronze and Iron Ages. His PhD thesis, “Stamp Seals as Prism for the Gender History of the Southern Levant: Archaeological, Epigraphic, Iconographic and Exegetical Explorations,” developed a material gender history of the second and first millennium BCE southern Levant. From 2020–2024, he was a member of the international research project “Stamp Seals from the Southern Levant,” a cooperation of the universities of Zurich, Bern, and Tel Aviv, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Laura C.C. Gonnermann is researcher at the University of Leipzig. Izaak J. de Hulster (PhD, Utrecht) is Privatdozent at the Universities of Göttingen and Helsinki and a research fellow at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein (South Africa). He is also an acquisitions editor in theology for Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (De Gruyter Brill).