Description
Gender-Play in the Hebrew Bible
The Ways the Bible Challenges Its Gender Norms
Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Biblical Criticism Series
Author: Kalmanofsky Amy
Language: EnglishSubject for Gender-Play in the Hebrew Bible:
Keywords
Manoah’s Wife; Adam; Super Man; Ahab; Holy Man; Barak; Gender Dynamic; Biblical Criticism; Ancient Israel; Biblical Studies; Tent Peg; Biblical prophets; Grabs Hold; Deborah; Eve’s Birth; Delilah; Israel’s Savior; Elisha; Conventional Gender Norms; Eve; Violated; Gender Studies; Theological Hierarchy; Gender-Play; Van Der Kooij; Isaac; Samson’s Story; Jezebel; Eve’s Punishment; Manoah; Female Prophets; Masculinity; Samson’s Hair; Old Testament; God’s Prophet; Patriarchy; Adam’s Story; Rebecca; Biblical Gender; Samson; Prophet’s Presence; Sisera; Phoenician City States; Yael; Young Man; gender norms; Gender Flexibility; religious hierarchy; Woman’s Tent
Publication date: 09-2018
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 10-2016
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
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Though the Hebrew Bible often reflects and constructs a world that privileges men, many of its narratives play extensively with the gender norms of the society in which they were written. Drawing from feminist, masculinity and queer studies, Gender-Play in the Hebrew Bible uses close literary analysis to argue that the writers of the Bible intentionally challenge gender norms in order to reveal the dangers of destabilizing societal and theological hierarchies that privilege men and masculinity. This book presents a fascinating argument about the construction and import of gender in the biblical narratives, and will be of great interest to academics in the fields of religion, theology, and Biblical studies as well as gender studies.
Introduction
Chapter 1. Eve and Adam:
Chapter 2. Deborah, Barak, Sisera, and Yael
Chapter 3. Manoah, Manoah’s Wife, Samson and Delilah
Chapter 4. Jezebel and Ahab
Chapter 5. The Shunammite and Elisha
Chapter 6. Rebecca and Isaac
Chapter 7. Jeremiah
Conclusions
Amy Kalmanofsky is an associate professor of Bible at The Jewish Theological Seminary, US. She teaches courses on biblical literature, religion, and feminist interpretation of the Bible.