Yes--love the idea about the hair! I have long sections in the full version of the book from which this article is adapted, Heroic Bodies in Ancient Israel, on heroic hair (examining iconography and also Absalom in this regard). Susan Niditch has a great book that is totally devoted to the hair issue (My Brother Esau...).
Yes--love the idea about the hair! I have long sections in the full version of the book from which this article is adapted, Heroic Bodies in Ancient Israel, on heroic hair (examining iconography and also Absalom in this regard). Susan Niditch has a great book that is totally devoted to the hair issue (My Brother Esau...).