Male Friendship, Homosociality, and Women in the Hebrew Bible: Malignant Fraternities

ISBN-13: 9780367344979 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 178 str.

Barbara Thiede

Opis

Male alliances, partnerships, and friendships are fundamental to the Hebrew Bible. This book offers a detailed and explicit exploration of the ways in which shared sexual use of women and women’s bodies engenders, sustains, and nourishes such relationships in the Hebrew Bible.

Spis treści

1 Genesis 38: "Lest We Become a Laughingstock"  2 David, Jonathan, and Saul: Being Good at Being a Man  3: 2 Samuel 13: Rape in the Royal House  4 Genesis 12, 20, and 26: Bromance in Bible  5 Judges 19–21: The Warrior God and His Levite Soldier  6 Judges 4 and 5: Always Mothers, Never Friends

O autorze

Barbara Thiede is Teaching Professor of Judaic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. An ordained rabbi, she is also a member of the VAAD, the academic council for the ALEPH Ordination Program, where she teaches Hebrew Bible and Jewish history.