This book follows a reader¿s logic of association through a series of overlapping constructs in
biblical prescription of things prized and lofty¿holy hair unblemished beasts sacred edibles
wholesome wombs pristine precincts esteemed ethnicities and as unlikely as it seems
dismembered members. Thoroughly intersectional in disposition Bernon Lee uncovers not just the
precariousness of the contrived dichotomies through the identity-building sacred texts but
also the complexities and contentions of a would-be decolonizing hermeneutic bristling with its
own tensions and temptations. This volume is an intertextual odyssey through law and ritual
from impassioned positions fraught with ambivalence reticence and anxiety.
