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Gender Reversal and Cosmic Chaos

Gender Reversal and Cosmic Chaos

Hardcover

Series: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, Book 368

Bible Studies

ISBN10: 0826462243
ISBN13: 9780826462244
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jun 1 2003
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.44
Language: English

This book is about both the fear of gender reversal and its expression in the prophet Ezekiel's reworking of the marital metaphor. Kamionkowski argues that the abomination of wife Jerusalem is that she is attempting to pass for a male, thereby crossing gender boundaries and upsetting the world order. This story is therefore one of confused gender scripts, ensuing chaos and a re-ordering through the reinforcement of these strictly defined prescriptions of gendered behaviour.Using socio-historical evidence and the existence of the literary motif of men turning into women as a framework, this book argues that Ezekiel 16, in particular, reflects the gender chaos which arises as an aftermath of social and theological crises.

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