In Scripture :

Lefkovitz, Lori Hope, 1956-

In Scripture : the first stories of Jewish sexual identities / Lori Hope Lefkovitz. - Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2010. - 1 online resource (xii, 191 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Knowledge and nakedness : Eve in the garden of signs -- Sarah's laughter : matriarchal incoherence and the vexed sign of woman -- Passing as a man : patriarchal gender performances -- Leah behind the veil : sex with sisters from the Bible through Woody Allen -- Coats and tales : Joseph and myths of Jewish masculinity -- Miriam's fluid identity -- Bedrooms and battlefields : command performances of femininity -- Other boundary crossings : of talking beasts and bodies fragmented -- Oy! was that a close call : Ruth and the fundamental Jewish story.

Applying psychoanalytic and gender theory to selected Biblical narratives from Genesis to the Book of Ruth, Lefkovitz interprets the Bible's stories as foundation texts in the development of sexual identities. In Scripture is an exploration of the Biblical origins of a series of unstable ideas about the sexes, human sexuality, family roles, and Jewish sexual identities, in particular, and by extension, changing attitudes towards Jewish men and women.

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Bible.--Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible.--Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible.--Old Testament.


Gender identity in the Bible.
Masculinity in the Bible.
Femininity in the Bible.
Sex in the Bible.
RELIGION--Judaism--Sacred Writings.
RELIGION--Biblical Studies--Old Testament.
Femininity in the Bible.
Gender identity in the Bible.
Masculinity in the Bible.
Sex in the Bible.


Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

BS1199.G36 / L44 2010eb

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