Animal Studies, Feminism, and Biblical Interpretation
What can animal studies contribute to feminist biblical interpretation? This essay explores this question by calling attention to the role of feminist and gender analysis in contemporary interdisciplinary animal studies. Such studies point out that animals are often associated with women and with ra...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2020
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| In: |
The Oxford handbook of feminist approaches to the Hebrew Bible
Year: 2020 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Animals
/ Derrida, Jacques 1930-2004
/ Philistines
/ Sacrifice (Religion)
/ Feminism
/ Interpretation of
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy HA Bible HB Old Testament VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
carnophallogocentrism
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| Summary: | What can animal studies contribute to feminist biblical interpretation? This essay explores this question by calling attention to the role of feminist and gender analysis in contemporary interdisciplinary animal studies. Such studies point out that animals are often associated with women and with racial and ethnic others. After summarizing key positions from animal studies, the essay turns to several texts from the Pentateuch and the Former Prophets to outline the association between animals and women and ethnic others (especially Philistines) in biblical literature. The association demonstrates that another layer of complexity to male domination—or carnophallogocentrism—structures biblical literature. |
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| ISBN: | 0190462698 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Oxford handbook of feminist approaches to the Hebrew Bible
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190462673.013.36 |