Behemoth’s penis, Yahweh’s might: competing bodies in the Book of Job
The poetic description of Behemoth in Job 40 makes use of a literary technique for describing the body known as the was.f, elsewhere found most famously in biblical literature in the descriptions of the lovers in the Song of Songs (4.1-7; 5.11-16; 6.4-7; 7.2-10). In a was.f, body parts are systemati...
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SAGE Publications
2022
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