RT Article
T1 The ancestors’ masculinities in Genesis
JF Journal for the study of the Old Testament
VO 46
IS 2
SP 269
OP 288
A1 Winkler, Mathias 1987-
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1783565993
AB In Genesis, many of the male protagonists represent different peoples in the Levant and their relationships among each other. How those ancestors perform as ‘masculine’ men reflects the notion of the masculinity of the peoples descending from them, formulated from an Israelite/Judahite point of view. While the ancestors of Israel and Judah (Seth, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob) perform a certain masculine style, which can be labelled as pious, peaceful, gentle, smart and cultivated, the ancestors of neighbouring peoples (Ham, Lot, Ishmael, Esau) are portrayed as wild or sexually perverted but also aggressive, dominant or hypermasculine. The authors perceive their own people in a historically realistic way; they are no super-men. However, their masculine performance is favoured throughout and even divinely approved.
K1 Noah
K1 Esau
K1 Lot
K1 Ishmael
K1 Gen. 27
K1 Gen. 25
K1 Gen. 21
K1 Gen. 16
K1 Gen. 19
K1 Gen. 9
K1 Primeval History
K1 Patriarchal History
K1 Genesis
K1 Masculinity
DO 10.1177/03090892211001390