Introducing a hermeneutics of cispicion: reading Sarah and Esau's gender (failures) beyond cisnormativity
"Jo Henderson-Merrygold challenges cisnormative presuppositions that shape and, at times, occlude the variations in gender and sex exhibited by key characters in the ancestral narrative of Genesis 12-50. It charts the progression from Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutics of suspicion, through liber...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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2024
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Library of Hebrew bible/Old Testament studies (739)
Year: 2024 |
| Series/Journal: | Library of Hebrew bible/Old Testament studies Old Testament studies
739 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Gender identity in the Bible
B Esau (Biblical figure) B Sarah (Biblical matriarch) B Sex role Biblical teaching B Bible Feminist criticism B Bible. Genesis, XII-L Criticism, interpretation, etc |
| Summary: | "Jo Henderson-Merrygold challenges cisnormative presuppositions that shape and, at times, occlude the variations in gender and sex exhibited by key characters in the ancestral narrative of Genesis 12-50. It charts the progression from Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutics of suspicion, through liberation, feminist and queer approaches. Focusing on Deryn Guest's queer and trans hermeneutics, Henderson-Merrygold then offers a new strategy for reading against fixed, binary gender assumptions, where a character's sex always matches that assigned at birth"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references |
| ISBN: | 0567713083 |