In Scripture : The First Stories of Jewish Sexual Identities

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819577003321
• Autore: Lefkovitz Lori Hope
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-48068-5; 9786612480683; 1-4422-0306-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (205 p.)
• Disciplina: 221.8/3053; 221.83053
• Soggetti: Bible. O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Femininity in the Bible; Gender identity in the Bible; Masculinity in the Bible; Sex in the Bible; Religion; Judaism; Philosophy & Religion
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 01. Knowledge and Nakedness: Eve in the Garden of Signs; Chapter 02. Sarah's Laughter: Matriarchal Incoherence and the Vexed Sign of Woman; Chapter 03. Passing as a Man: Patriarchal Gender Performances; Chapter 04. Leah Behind the Veil: Sex with Sisters from the Bible through Woody Allen; Chapter 05. Coats and Tales: Joseph and Myths of Jewish Masculinity; Chapter 06. Miriam's Fluid Identity; Chapter 07. Bedrooms and Battlefields: Command Performances of Femininity; Chapter 08. Other Boundary Crossings: Of Talking Beasts and Bodies Fragmented; Chapter 09. Oy! Was That a Close Call: Ruth and the Fundamental Jewish StoryNotes; References; Index; About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: Applying psychoanalytic and gender theory to selected Biblical narratives from Genesis to the Book of Ruth, Lefkovitz interprets the ; Bible's stories as foundation texts in the development of sexual identities. In Scripture is an exploration of the Biblical origins of a series of unstable ideas about the sexes, human sexuality, family roles, and Jewish sexual identities, in particular, and by extension, changing attitudes towards Jewish men and women.