on gendering desire and 'sexuality' in the Hebrew Bible
Edición de la obra The intercourse of knowledge
| Autor | Athalya Brenner |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Brill |
| Fecha de publicación | 1997 |
| Lugar | Leiden, New York |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 190 |
| ISBN-10 | 9004101551 |
| OCLC | 35658063 |
| LCCN | 96046460 |
| Serie | Biblical interpretation series, · v. 26 |
| Número de Cutter | B838i |
This book 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 sociological and theological implications of the findings.