Too Many Dicks at the Writing Desk, or, How to Organize a Prophetic Sausage-Fest
The key issue for this paper is the role of writing in both the production of and instabilities in prophetic masculinity. I draw upon three sources: the work of Lévi-Strauss concerning the "writing experiment," Christina Pettersen's exploration of the role of writing in constructing t...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
2010
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Theology & sexuality
Year: 2010, Volume: 16, Issue: 1, Pages: 95-108 |
Further subjects: | B
Theology
B Masculinity B Hebrew Bible B Ancient Near East B Sexuality |
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Summary: | The key issue for this paper is the role of writing in both the production of and instabilities in prophetic masculinity. I draw upon three sources: the work of Lévi-Strauss concerning the "writing experiment," Christina Pettersen's exploration of the role of writing in constructing the ruling class in colonial Greenland, and some of my older work concerning the auto-referentiality of references to writing and scribal activity in the Hebrew Bible. Armed with these theoretical strings, the paper has two phases—what may be called "organizing the sausage-fest" and "too many dicks at the writing desk." The first concerns the production of masculinity, the second its problems. |
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ISSN: | 1745-5170 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology & sexuality
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/tse.v16i1.95 |