tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19505042.post8103425912477981562..comments2024-01-29T06:02:39.583-08:00Comments on Suzanne's Bookshelf: "Not of blood"Suzanne McCarthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07033350578895908993noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19505042.post-56029116741215748262009-07-16T05:02:33.904-07:002009-07-16T05:02:33.904-07:00I know I can't do trackbacks to Blogger, but I...I know I can't do trackbacks to Blogger, but I think there is a problem with this over the question of whether John knows the tradition of a virginal conception and alludes to it here. See <a href="http://clayboy.co.uk/2009/07/translating-bloods-johns-prologue-and-the-virginal-conception/" rel="nofollow">this post</a> for a fuller argument.Doug Chaplinhttp://clayboy.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19505042.post-46791725662255173982009-07-15T14:02:46.939-07:002009-07-15T14:02:46.939-07:00This might be another que to John's use of Wis...This might be another que to John's use of Wisdom in his Prologue.J. L. Wattshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01000798494472742263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19505042.post-28305420743395946952009-07-15T14:02:00.770-07:002009-07-15T14:02:00.770-07:00Excellent translation, and connection to Wisdom 7,...Excellent translation, and connection to Wisdom 7, Suzanne.J. L. Wattshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01000798494472742263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19505042.post-90292341408141428152009-07-15T13:28:12.077-07:002009-07-15T13:28:12.077-07:00Blood is also very important in literary and theol...Blood is also very important in literary and theological feminisms. <br /><br />For example, Adriene Rich writes, "Blood, Bread, Poetry: The Location of the Poet," an essay in her anthology by the title <i>Blood, Bread, Poetry</i> in which she considers the "facts of blood" as personal, familial, and social issues. And Mary Ann Tolbert, taking Rich's analyses as a starting point, writes, "When Resistance Becomes Repression: Mark 12:9-27 and the Poetics of Location" (in her coauthored / coedited volume <i>Reading from Place: Social Location and Biblical Interpretation in Global Perspective</i>), discussing the implications of the "flesh-and-blood" reader and author. <br /><br />Likewise, <i>Wholly Woman, Holy Blood</i> (edited by Kristin De Troyer, Judith A. Herbert, Judith Ann Johnson, and Anne-Marie Korte) is a cross-discipline look at how "blood" figures in the Bible and in the Christian tradition especially in relation to women, childbirth, menstrual prohibitions, and motherhood. De Troyer's essay "Blood: A Threat to Holiness or toward (Another) Holiness?" shows contrasts between "blood" and "water" as in Ezekiel 16:9 - "Then I bathed you with water and washed off the blood from you, and anointed you with oil." And Kathleen P. Rushton's essay gets at some of the imagery in John's gospel: "The Woman in Childbirth of John 16:21: A Feminist Reading in (Pro)creative Boundary Crossing."J. K. Gaylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07600312868663460988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19505042.post-62962635721329841492009-07-15T08:52:01.002-07:002009-07-15T08:52:01.002-07:00LOL, "fetoplacental circulation" sounds ...LOL, "fetoplacental circulation" sounds like Aristotle.<br /><br />But Euripides (in <i>Bacchae</i>, 987b-990) has the Chorus singing:<br /><br />"... Bacchae? Who bore him? For he was not born from a woman's blood, but is the offspring of some lioness 990 or of Libyan Gorgons."<br /><br />... ὦ βάκχαι; τίς ἄρα νιν ἔτεκεν;<br />οὐ γὰρ ἐξ αἵματος<br />γυναικῶν ἔφυ, λεαίνας δέ τινος<br />ὅδ’ ἢ Γοργόνων Λιβυσσᾶν γένος.<br /><br />A question of mothers (as translated by E. P. Coleridge).J. K. Gaylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07600312868663460988noreply@blogger.com