Athalya Brenner

The Intercourse of Knowledge: On Gendering Desire and 'Sexuality' in the Hebrew Bible

Buch

This groundbreaking book, which builds on the author's earlier work in On Gendering Texts, studies how, by what means and to what extent human love, desire and sex, and possibly even 'sexuality', are gendered in the Hebrew Bible. Following a classification and gendering of the linguistic and semantic data, the investigation looks into the construction of male and female bodies in language and ideologies; the praxis and ideology of sex, procreation and contraception; deviation from socio-sexual boundaries (e.g. incest, rape, adultery, homosexuality, prostitution); eroticism and pornoprophetics. Finally, the work discusses some of the wider soc… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-90-04-10155-5
EAN: 9789004101555
Produktnummer: 1695528
Verlag: Brill Academic Pub
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
Seitenangabe: 190 S.
Masse: H24.9 cm x B16.8 cm x D1.8 cm 503 g
Reihenbandnummer: 26
Gewicht: 503

Über den Autor

Athalya Brenner, Ph.D. (1979), University of Manchester, is Senior Lecturer at the Technion, Haifa, Israel, and Professor of Feminism and Christianity at the Catholic University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. She has published widely on feminist exegesis of the Hebrew Bible, including the first volume in this series, On Gendering Texts. Female and Male Voices in the Hebrew Bible (Brill, 1996), which was co-authored with Fokkelien van Dijk-Hemmes.