Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme – författare

Gudme applies an anthropological approach to the Hebrew Bible and carries out a systematic study of the role, function and literary use of hospitality in the biblical texts. Gudme's starting point is a contextualization of classical anthropological themes such as reciprocity, guest friendship and kinship structures, which is supplemented by insights from more recent studies on gender, materiality and space. She moves on to provide a much needed critical and systematic analysis and overview of the key hospitality texts in the Hebrew bible, including discussions of the ‘dark sides’ of hospitality such as deceit, rape and violence.Gudme shows that hospitality is a central theme and a core value in the Hebrew bible. This is famously illustrated by the patriarch Abraham who acts as the perfect host to a visitor that turns out to be God himself in the Book of Genesis chapter 18. In the biblical texts, hospitality creates social capital, it forges alliances and marriages and it is used as literary tool to characterize both people and deities.

A selection of essays on magic and divination in relation to the biblical world, including Mesopotamian demonology, Akkadian literary influences, exorcism, healing, calendars, astrology, bibliomancy, dreams, ritual magic, priestly divination, prophecy, magic in the Christian Apocrypha and the New Testament, magic in rabbinic literature, and Jewish Aramaic magic bowls.

The human body stands at a fascinating intersection between what all people share and what each culture makes of it. Our bodies today are not so different from those of ancient people, allowing us to recognize experiences across time and place. Yet ideas about the body—its meanings, values, and taboos—vary widely. The Body in the Hebrew Bible takes this insight as its starting point. Written in a lively, conversational style, this book presents a comprehensive introduction to the body in the Hebrew Bible. Organized anatomically from the inside out and from top to bottom, it explores everything from the location of the nefesh (life force) in the throat to the seductive power of hair and the moral symbolism of the kidneys. Along the way, Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme and Søren Lorenzen map out not only human bodies but also animal, angelic, and divine ones, helping readers see both the biblical roots of modern perceptions of the body and the surprising ways in which ancient conceptions differ from contemporary ones. Drawing on perspectives from disability studies, sensory studies, gender studies, and cognitive linguistics, The Body in the Hebrew Bible remains fully accessible to newcomers. Ideal for undergraduate students in theology, biblical studies, religious studies, and cultural studies—and a valuable resource for instructors—it offers an engaging, easy‑to‑use entry point into the cultural world of biblical bodies.

This monograph is an investigation of Yahwistic votive practice during the Hellenistic period. The dedicatory inscriptions from the Yahweh temple on Mount Gerizim are analyzed in light of votive practice in Biblical literature and in general on the basis of a thorough terminological and theoretical discussion.A special focus is laid on remembrance formulae, which request the deity to remember the worshipper in return for a gift. These formulae cannot only be found at Gerizim, but also in other Semitic dedicatory inscriptions. Therefore these texts are interpreted in their broader cultural context, placed within a broad religious practice of dedicating gifts to the gods and leaving inscriptions in sanctuaries. Finally, the aspect of divine remembrance in the Hebrew Bible is explored and related to the materiality of the votive inscription.The research concludes that there is a perception of the divine behind this practice on Mount Gerizim that ties together the aspects of gift, remembrance and material presence. This ‘theology’ is echoed both in similar Semitic dedicatory inscriptions and in the Hebrew Bible.