Gender Play In The Hebrew Bible

Download Gender Play In The Hebrew Bible full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Gender Play In The Hebrew Bible ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Gender-Play in the Hebrew Bible

Author : Amy Kalmanofsky
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315441993
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Gender-Play in the Hebrew Bible by : Amy Kalmanofsky

Download or read book Gender-Play in the Hebrew Bible written by Amy Kalmanofsky and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Women in the Hebrew Bible

Author : Alice Bach
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135238685
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Women in the Hebrew Bible by : Alice Bach

Download or read book Women in the Hebrew Bible written by Alice Bach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in the Hebrew Bible presents the first one-volume overview covering the interpretation of women's place in man's world within the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. Written by the major scholars in the field of biblical studies and literary theory, these essays examine attitudes toward women and their status in ancient Near Eastern societies, focusing on the Israelite society portrayed by the Hebrew Bible.

Gender and Law in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East

Author : Victor H. Matthews
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780567080981
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (89 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Gender and Law in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East by : Victor H. Matthews

Download or read book Gender and Law in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East written by Victor H. Matthews and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-11-11 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This striking new contribution to gender studies demonstrates the essential role of Israelite and Near East law in the historical analysis of gender. The theme of these studies of Babylonian, Hittite, Assyrian, and Israelite law is this: What is the significance of gender in the formulation of ancient law and custom? Feminist scholarship is enriched by these studies in family history and the status of women in antiquity. At the same time, conventional legal history is repositioned, as new and classical texts are interpreted from the vantage point of feminist theory and social history. Papers from SBL Biblical Law Section form the core of this collection.

A Question of Sex?

Author : Deborah W. Rooke
Publisher : Sheffield Phoenix Press Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Question of Sex? by : Deborah W. Rooke

Download or read book A Question of Sex? written by Deborah W. Rooke and published by Sheffield Phoenix Press Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender differences between men and women are not just a matter of sexual differentiation; the roles that men and women play are also socially and culturally determined, in ancient Israel and post-biblical Judaism as in every other context. That is the theme of these ten studies. The first part of the volume examines the gender definitions and roles that can be identified in the Hebrew Bible's legal and ritual texts. The second part uses archaeological and anthropological perspectives to interrogate the biblical text and the society that formed it on issues of gender. The third part explores similar gender issues in a range of material outside the Hebrew Bible, from the Apocrypha through Josephus and Philo down to mediaeval Jewish marriage contracts (ketubbot). Among the questions here discussed are: Why are men, but not women, required to bathe in order to achieve ritual purity after incurring certain types of defilement? What understandings of masculinity and femininity underlie the regulations about incest? Was ancient Israel simply a patriarchal society, or were there more complex dynamics of power in which women as well as men were involved? What do post-biblical re-interpretations of the female figures of Wisdom and Folly in Proverbs 1-9 suggest about heterosexual masculinity? And what kind of rights did mediaeval Middle-Eastern Jewish women have within their marriage relationships?

Prophecy and Gender in the Hebrew Bible

Author : L. Juliana Claassens
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 0884144747
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (841 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Prophecy and Gender in the Hebrew Bible by : L. Juliana Claassens

Download or read book Prophecy and Gender in the Hebrew Bible written by L. Juliana Claassens and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multifaceted insights into female life in prophetic contexts Both prophets and prophetesses shared God’s divine will with the people of Israel, yet the voices of these women were often forgotten due to later prohibitions against women teaching in public. This latest volume of the Bible and Women series focuses on the intersection of gender and prophecy in the Former Prophets (Joshua to 2 Kings) as well as in the Latter Prophets of the Hebrew Bible. Essays examine how women appear in the iconography of the ancient world, the historical background of the phenomenon of prophecy, political and religious resistance by women in the biblical text, and gender symbolism and constructions in prophetic material as well as the metaphorical discourse of God. Contributors Michaela Bauks, Athalya Brenner-Idan, Ora Brison, L. Juliana Claassens, Marta García Fernández, Irmtraud Fischer, Maria Häusl, Rainer Kessler, Nancy C. Lee, Hanne Løland Levinson, Christl M. Maier, Ilse Müllner, Martti Nissinen, Ombretta Pettigiani, Ruth Poser, Benedetta Rossi, Silvia Schroer, and Omer Sergi draw insight into the texts from a range of innovative gender-oriented approaches.

Gender and Difference in Ancient Israel

Author : Peggy Lynne Day
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451415766
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (157 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Gender and Difference in Ancient Israel by : Peggy Lynne Day

Download or read book Gender and Difference in Ancient Israel written by Peggy Lynne Day and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Freed from contemporary theological categories that have been informed by ideological and psychological issues, but ever mindful of the social location of gender analysis, these essays provide fresh and exciting looks at otherwise unfamiliar texts. They jar our minds and our biases.... This book is a valuable contribution to gender-oriented biblical scholarship. Its content is accessible to both the scholarly and the less technically trained reader. All will be well served by this important collection of essays."? Naomi Steinberg, DePaul University"This book is a credit to the quality and breadth of feminine biblical scholarship and presents some creative interpretations of the texts and a wealth of Ancient Near Eastern material."? J. Massyngbaerde Ford, University of Notre Dame

On Gendering Texts

Author : Athalya Brenner
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004271171
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis On Gendering Texts by : Athalya Brenner

Download or read book On Gendering Texts written by Athalya Brenner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-01-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Impurity and Gender in the Hebrew Bible

Author : Elizabeth W. Goldstein
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498500811
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Impurity and Gender in the Hebrew Bible by : Elizabeth W. Goldstein

Download or read book Impurity and Gender in the Hebrew Bible written by Elizabeth W. Goldstein and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impurity and Gender in the Hebrew Bible explores the role of female blood in the Hebrew Bible and considers its theological implications for future understandings of purity and impurity in the Jewish religion. Influenced by the work of Jonathan Klawans (Sin and Impurity in Ancient Judaism), and using the categories of ritual and moral impurities, this book analyzes the way in which these categories intersect with women and with the impurity of female blood, and reads the biblical foundations of purity and blood taboos with a feminist lens. Ultimately, the purpose of this book is to understand the intersection between impurity and gender, figuratively and non-figuratively, in the Hebrew Bible. Goldstein traces this intersection from the years 1000 BCE-250 BCE and ends with a consideration of female impurity in the literature of Qumran.

Prophets Male and Female

Author :
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 1589837770
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (898 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Prophets Male and Female by :

Download or read book Prophets Male and Female written by and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2013-06-05 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because gender is an essential component of societies of all times and places, it is no surprise that every prophetic expression in the ancient social world was a gendered one. In this volume scholars of the biblical literature and of the ancient Mediterranean consider a wide array of prophetic phenomena. In addition to prophetic texts of the Hebrew Bible, the essays also look at prophecy in ancient Mesopotamia and early Christianity. Using the most current theoretical categories, the volume demonstrates how essential a broad definition of gender is for understanding its connection to both the delivery and the content of ancient prophecy. Attention to gender dynamics will continue to reveal the fluidity of prophetic gender performance and to open up the ancient contexts of prophetic texts. The contributors are Roland Boer, Corrine Carvalho, Lester L. Grabbe, Anselm C. Hagedorn, Esther J. Hamori, Dale Launderville, Antti Marjanen, Martti Nissinen, Jonathan Stökl, Hanna Tervanotko, and Ilona Zsolnay.

Women in the Hebrew Bible

Author : Alice Bach
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135238758
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Women in the Hebrew Bible by : Alice Bach

Download or read book Women in the Hebrew Bible written by Alice Bach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in the Hebrew Bible presents the first one-volume overview covering the interpretation of women's place in man's world within the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. Written by the major scholars in the field of biblical studies and literary theory, these essays examine attitudes toward women and their status in ancient Near Eastern societies, focusing on the Israelite society portrayed by the Hebrew Bible.

The Hebrew Bible

Author : Gale A. Yee
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506425496
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Hebrew Bible by : Gale A. Yee

Download or read book The Hebrew Bible written by Gale A. Yee and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an introduction and essays on the four key sections of the Hebrew Scriptures from the perspective of top female biblical scholars: Part One: Torah/Pentateuch Part Two: Deuteronomistic History (Joshua–2 Kings) Part Three: Prophets and Prophecy Part Four: Writings and the Book of Daniel This volume highlights key issues in the Hebrew Scriptures from the perspective of top female biblical scholars. This includes historical critical and literary textual analysis and exegesis, particularly as viewed through feminist and intersectional interpretive lenses. Intersectional lenses include the racial/ethnic, class, Global South, postcolonial, and so forth, and their interconnections with gender. The introduction to the volume by the editor introduces feminist intersectional biblical scholarship, making the case that this scholarship addresses perspectives that are often missing from even very thorough survey texts: feminist and intersectional issues regarding the women characters, sexual assumptions, sexual and domestic violence, symbolization of women, class and race relations, and so forth. The essays have been created for students who may be encountering feminist biblical and intersectional scholarship for the first time. Other contributors to this volume include Carolyn J. Sharp, Vanessa Lynn Lovelace, Corrine L. Carvalho, Melody Knowles, and Judy Fentriss-Williams.

Transforming

Author : Austen Hartke
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 1611648521
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Transforming by : Austen Hartke

Download or read book Transforming written by Austen Hartke and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2018-04-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2014, Time magazine announced that America had reached the transgender tipping point, suggesting that transgender issues would become the next civil rights frontier. Years later, many peopleeven many LGBTQ alliesstill lack understanding of gender identity and the transgender experience. Into this void, Austen Hartke offers a biblically based, educational, and affirming resource to shed light and wisdom on this modern gender landscape. Transforming: The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians provides access into an underrepresented and misunderstood community and will change the way readers think about transgender people, faith, and the future of Christianity. By introducing transgender issues and language and providing stories of both biblical characters and real-life narratives from transgender Christians living today, Hartke helps readers visualize a more inclusive Christianity, equipping them with the confidence and tools to change both the church and the world.

Women in Drag

Author : Caryn Tamber-Rosenau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781463207168
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Women in Drag by : Caryn Tamber-Rosenau

Download or read book Women in Drag written by Caryn Tamber-Rosenau and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From Jael's tent peg to Judith's sword, biblical interpreters have long recognized the power of the "lethal women" stories of the Hebrew Bible and related literature. The tales of Jael and Judith, female characters who assassinate enemy commanders, have fascinated artists, writers, and scholars for centuries, no doubt partly because of the gender of the characters doing the killing. Tamber-Rosenau presents the first systematic study, both text-centered and deeply engaged with a variety of queer-theoretical frameworks, of the motif of the woman-turned-warrior in ancient Jewish literature. Through analysis from queer-theoretical perspectives and comparison with Ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman literature, Women in Drag shines new light on three strong female characters from the Hebrew Bible and the early days of Jewish literature"--Provided by publisher.

The Contemporary Torah

Author : David E. S. Stein
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0827607962
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (276 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Contemporary Torah by : David E. S. Stein

Download or read book The Contemporary Torah written by David E. S. Stein and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In most cases references to God are in gender-neutral language. The Tetragammaton, the unpronounceable four-letter name for the Divine, appears in this translation in unvocalized Hebrew to convey that the Name is something totally "other" - beyond translation, gender, speech, and understanding. In some instances, however, male imagery depicting God is preserved because it reflects biblical society's view of gender roles."--BOOK JACKET.

The Torah

Author : Dr. Tamara Cohn Eskenazi
Publisher : CCAR Press
ISBN 13 : 0881232831
Total Pages : 1416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (812 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Torah by : Dr. Tamara Cohn Eskenazi

Download or read book The Torah written by Dr. Tamara Cohn Eskenazi and published by CCAR Press. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 1416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The groundbreaking volume The Torah: A Women's Commentary, originally published by URJ Press and Women of Reform Judaism, has been awarded the top prize in the oldest Jewish literary award program, the 2008 National Jewish Book Awards. A work of great import, the volume is the result of 14 years of planning, research, and fundraising. THE HISTORY: At the 39th Women of Reform Judaism Assembly in San Francisco, Cantor Sarah Sager challenged Women of Reform Judaism delegates to "imagine women feeling permitted, for the first time, feeling able, feeling legitimate in their study of Torah." WRJ accepted that challenge. The Torah: A Women's Commentary was introduced at the Union for Reform Judaism 69th Biennial Convention in San Diego in December 2007. WRJ has commissioned the work of the world's leading Jewish female Bible scholars, rabbis, historians, philosophers and archaeologists. Their collective efforts resulted in the first comprehensive commentary, authored only by women, on the Five Books of Moses, including individual Torah portions as well as the Hebrew and English translation. The Torah: A Women's Commentary gives dimension to the women's voices in our tradition. Under the skillful leadership of editors Dr. Tamara Cohn Eskenazi and Rabbi Andrea Weiss, PhD, this commentary provides insight and inspiration for all who study Torah: men and women, Jew and non-Jew. As Dr. Eskenazi has eloquently stated, "we want to bring the women of the Torah from the shadow into the limelight, from their silences into speech, from the margins to which they have often been relegated to the center of the page - for their sake, for our sake and for our children's sake."

Body, Gender and Purity in Leviticus 12 and 15

Author : Dorothea Erbele-Küster
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0567496651
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (674 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Body, Gender and Purity in Leviticus 12 and 15 by : Dorothea Erbele-Küster

Download or read book Body, Gender and Purity in Leviticus 12 and 15 written by Dorothea Erbele-Küster and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The so-called purity laws in Leviticus 11-15 reflect a cultic and social view on the male and female body. These texts do not give detailed physiological descriptions. Instead, they prescribe what to do in the cases of skin disease, delivery and wo/man's genital discharges, but the particular way of dealing with the body and the language used in Leviticus 12 and 15 ask for clarification: How do these texts construct the male and female body? Which roles does gender play within this language? By means of themes like menstruation and circumcision, the author unfolds the language used for the body in Leviticus and its interpretation history. The study provides material for a contemporary anthropology of bodies which relates the human sexed body to God's holiness.

Dinah's Daughters

Author : Helena Zlotnick
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812204018
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Dinah's Daughters by : Helena Zlotnick

Download or read book Dinah's Daughters written by Helena Zlotnick and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The status of women in the ancient Judaism of the Hebrew Bible and Rabbinic texts has long been a contested issue. What does being a Jewess entail in antiquity? Men in ancient Jewish culture are defined primarily by what duties they are expected to perform, the course of action that they take. The Jewess, in contrast, is bound by stricture. Writing on the formation and transformation of the ideology of female Jewishness in the ancient world, Zlotnick places her treatment in a broad, comparative, Mediterranean context, bringing in parallels from Greek and Roman sources. Drawing on episodes from the Hebrew Bible and on Midrashic, Mishnaic, and Talmudic texts, she pays particular attention to the ways in which they attempt to determine the boundaries of communal affiliation through real and perceived differences between Israelites, or Jews, on one hand and non-Israelites, or Gentiles, on the other. Women are often associated in the sources with the forbidden, and foreign women are endowed with a curious freedom of action and choice that is hardly ever shared by their Jewish counterparts. Delilah, for instance, is one of the most autonomous women in the Bible, appearing without patronymic or family ties. She also brings disaster. Dinah, the Jewess, by contrast, becomes an agent of self-destruction when she goes out to mingle with gentile female friends. In ancient Judaism the lessons of such tales were applied as rules to sustain membership in the family, the clan, and the community. While Zlotnick's central project is to untangle the challenges of sex, gender, and the formation of national identity in antiquity, her book is also a remarkable study of intertextual relations within the Jewish literary tradition.