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9780415174831

God, Gender and the Bible

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415174831

  • ISBN10:

    041517483X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-09-13
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Deborah Sawyer discusses this crucial yet unresolved question in the context of contemporary and postmodern ideas about gender and power, based on fresh examination of a number of texts from Hebrew and Christian scripture. Such texts offer striking parallels to contemporary gender theories (particularly those of Luce Irigaray and Judith Butler), which have unravelled given notions of power and constructed identity. Through the study of gender in terms of its application by biblical writers as a theological strategy, we can observe how these writers use female characters to undermine human masculinity, through their 'higher' intention to elevate the biblical God. God Gender and the Bible demonstrates that both maleness and femaleness are constructed in the light of divine omnipotence. Unlike many approaches to the Bible that offer hegemonist interpretations, such as those that are explicitly Christian or Jewish, or liberationist or feminist, this enlightening and readable study sustains and works with the inconsistencies evident in biblical literature.

Author Biography

Deborah F. Sawyer is Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Lancaster University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii
Preliminary observations
1(17)
Setting the boundaries
18(27)
Creation
18(11)
Law
29(7)
Wisdom
36(9)
Testing the boundaries
45(20)
Picking up the pieces
45(2)
Laws are made to he broken
47(4)
Abraham -- the mimetic patriarch
51(7)
Judah -- Hypocrite or victim?
58(7)
Breaking the boundaries
65(22)
Judges
66(14)
Ruth
80(7)
Crossing the boundaries
87(27)
Judith
87(12)
Gospel traditions
99(15)
Reconfiguring the boundaries
114(27)
Fatherhood -- divine and human
115(9)
Childhood in the deusfamilias vs. paterfamilias
124(9)
Oneness and eternal innocence
133(8)
Last things
141(19)
Gender-bending as an eschatological `tool'
144(8)
Working with the exceptional
152(8)
Bibliography 160(12)
Subject and author index 172(9)
Index of texts 181

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