Construction of gender and identity in Genesis: the subject and the other
"Karalina Matskevich examines the structures that map out the construction of gendered and national identities in Genesis 2-3 and 12-36. Matskevich shows how the dominant 'Subject' - the androcentric ha'adam and the ethnocentric Israel - is perceived in relation to and over again...
| Published in: | Library of Hebrew bible/Old Testament studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
New York
Bloomsbury International Clark
2019
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2019 |
| In: |
Library of Hebrew bible/Old Testament studies (647)
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| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Matskevich, Karalina, Construction of gender and identity in Genesis : the subject and the other] (2020) (Cruz, Juan)
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| Edition: | First edition |
| Series/Journal: | Library of Hebrew bible/Old Testament studies Old Testament studies
647 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Genesis
/ Sexual identity
/ Exegesis
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| Further subjects: | B
Bible. Genesis
Criticism, interpretation, etc
B Outsiders in the Bible B Women in the Bible B Thesis |
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Volltext (doi) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | "Karalina Matskevich examines the structures that map out the construction of gendered and national identities in Genesis 2-3 and 12-36. Matskevich shows how the dominant 'Subject' - the androcentric ha'adam and the ethnocentric Israel - is perceived in relation to and over against the 'Other', represented respectively as female and foreign. Using the tools of narratology, semiotics and psychoanalysis, Matskevich highlights the contradiction inherent in the project of dominance, through which the Subject seeks to suppress the transforming power of difference it relies on for its signification. Thus, in Genesis 2-3 ha'adam can only emerge as a complex Subject in possession of knowledge with the help of woman, the transforming Other to whom the narrator (and Yahweh) attributes both the agency and the blame. Similarly, the narratives of Genesis 12-36 show a conflicted attitude to places of alterity: Egypt, the fertile and seductive space that threatens annihilation, and Haran, the 'mother's land', a complex metaphor for the feminine. The construction of identity in these narratives largely relies on the symbolic fecundity of the Other."--Bloomsbury Publishing List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Subject and Knowledge in Genesis 2-3 -- 2. The Subject and the Land in the Abraham Cycle (Genesis 11.27-25.18) -- 3. The Mothers and the Mother's Land in the Jacob Narrative (Gen. 25.19-37.1) -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Authors -- Index of Biblical References. |
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| Item Description: | Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0567673782 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5040/9780567673787 |