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Male Friendship, Homosociality, and Women in the Hebrew Bible
Malignant Fraternities
Routledge Studies in the Biblical World Series
Author: Thiede Barbara
Language: English
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Keywords
Young Man; male friendship in the bible; David's Sons; homosociality in the bible; Hebrew Bible; male friendship in the old testament; Left Handed Men; homosociality in the old testament; Male Male Friendships; homosociality and women in the bible; Biblical Authors; women in the hebrew bible; Hegemonic Masculinity; Abimelech and abraham; Tamar's Rape; Avimelech and abraham; Jonathan's Love; male alliances in the hebrew bible; King Abimelech; female body in the hebrew bible; Israelite Deity; female body and transactions in the bible; Saul's Court; Genesis 38; Male Homosociality; Genesis 12; Male Alliances; Genesis 20; Sisera's Mother; gender in genesis; King Jabin; women in genesis; Sarah's Body; masculinity in the hebrew bible; Van Selms; masculinity in genesis; Yhwh's Power; judah and hirah; Amnon's Rape; tamar and judah; David's Rise; Judges 19; Brother Amnon; women in judges; Fecund Flower; masculinity in judges; Holy Man; 2 Samuel 13; Abram's Sons; women in samuel; masculinity in samuel; david and jonathan; rape in the hebrew bible; concubines in the hebrew bible; amnon and Jonadab; Amnon and tamar; rape and male friendship in the bible; sex in the hebrew bible
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Male alliances, partnerships, and friendships are fundamental to the Hebrew Bible. This book offers a detailed and explicit exploration of the ways in which shared sexual use of women and women?s bodies engenders, sustains, and nourishes such relationships in the Hebrew Bible.
Hebrew Bible narratives demonstrate that women and women?s bodies are not merely used to foster and cultivate male homosociality, male friendship, and toxic hegemonic masculinity, but rather to engender them and make them possible in the first place. Thiede argues that homosocial bonds between divine and mortal males are part of a continual competition for power, rank, and honor, and that this competition depends on women?s bodies for its expression. In a final chapter, she also explores whether female characters in the Hebrew Bible use male bodies to form friendships and alliances to advance female power, status, and rank. The book concludes by arguing that women are essential to the toxic biblical hegemonic masculinity we find in the Hebrew Bible, but only because their bodies are used to make it possible in the first place.
This book is intended for scholars of the Hebrew Bible, as well as advanced undergraduate and graduate students in religious studies, women and gender studies, masculinity studies, queer studies, and like fields. The book can also be read profitably by lay students of biblical literature, seminary students, and clergy.
1 Genesis 38: "Lest We Become a Laughingstock" 2 David, Jonathan, and Saul: Being Good at Being a Man 3: 2 Samuel 13: Rape in the Royal House 4 Genesis 12, 20, and 26: Bromance in Bible 5 Judges 19–21: The Warrior God and His Levite Soldier 6 Judges 4 and 5: Always Mothers, Never Friends
Barbara Thiede is Teaching Professor of Judaic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. An ordained rabbi, she is also a member of the VAAD, the academic council for the ALEPH Ordination Program, where she teaches Hebrew Bible and Jewish history.
