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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Main Author: Boer, Roland (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group 2010
In: 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.
ISSN:1745-5170
Contains:Enthalten in: Theology & sexuality
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/tse.v16i1.95