Doing Biblical Masculinity Studies as Feminist Biblical Studies?
Critical Interrogations
Hardback (No longer our product)
(October 2023)
ISBN: 9781914490354
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(May 2022)
ISBN: 9781918358124
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This anthology presents a collaborative interrogation at the intersection of feminist biblical studies and biblical masculinity studies. The included essays make a compelling case for both feminist and masculist readers to recognize the advantage of engaging with each other. As they join forces they produce research that not only brings female characters gender issues or queer interpretation histories to the forefront but also interrogates critically male characters as well as androcentric and heteronormative conventions viewpoints and norms. Connections to geopolitical ethno-religious and other intersectional issues are part and parcel of the diverse range of approaches.
As a whole then the book expands the scholarly discourse from essentializing attention on ‘women’ or ‘men’ to a multifaceted (de)construction of gender that exposes gendered structures of domination in comprehensive ways. The shared goal is to halt reactionary
gender discourses and to foster intersectional comprehension of texts and scholarship. Theoretical historical contemporary and textual considerations underscore the methodological hermeneutical and exegetical value of this kind of work.
The volume is organized into three main parts. First ‘Theoretical Considerations’ presents two essays illuminating meta-level assumptions and developments when biblical scholars embrace the interrelationship of feminist and masculinity studies in their work. Second ‘Historical and Contemporary Considerations’ contains three essays examining the Bible in past and present cultural contexts. Third ‘Textual Considerations’ features four essays focusing on specific passages with lenses informed by masculinity and feminist studies. All nine essays and the three responses addressing them invite readers to understand critique and interrupt phallogocentric assumptions in texts interpretation histories and research of the Hebrew Bible.
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