My Lord the Queen: Gender Discord in Comparative Perspective
Gender discord describes a phenomenon in Biblical Hebrew in which there is a disjuncture between the gender of a pronoun or verb with its antecedent or subject. Typically, scholarship has approached instances of this on the basis of historical Hebrew grammar, arguing that there was a weakening in th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Mohr Siebeck
[2019]
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Hebrew bible and ancient Israel
Year: 2019, Volume: 8, Issue: 4, Pages: 448-463 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sex difference
/ Quarreling
/ Grammar
/ Woman
/ Language
/ Semantics
/ Ruth
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament HD Early Judaism |
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| Summary: | Gender discord describes a phenomenon in Biblical Hebrew in which there is a disjuncture between the gender of a pronoun or verb with its antecedent or subject. Typically, scholarship has approached instances of this on the basis of historical Hebrew grammar, arguing that there was a weakening in the distinction of gender in the Second Temple period and hence the feminine plural suffix became subsumed under its masculine counterpart. On the other hand, certain Neo-Assyrian texts employ a similar grammatical strategy in which high-ranking Assyrian women are referred to, reverently, with male titles. Influential women of the court in a society where institutional authority was most often a masculine property come to be seen as »honorary males« in this patriarchal social system. Beyond the grammatical explanation, in this paper I consider the literary effect of gender discord in biblical narrative in light of a comparative semantic study between gender discord in Neo-Assyrian texts and the book of Ruth. |
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| ISSN: | 2192-2284 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Hebrew bible and ancient Israel
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1628/hebai-2019-0029 |