Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 0203995309
9780203995303
9786610113422
6610113424
9781134686391
1134686390
9781134686346
113468634X
9781134686384
1134686382
9780415174831
041517483X
9780415174848
0415174848
0415174848
041517483X
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-171) and indexes.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | "How can contemporary studies of gender and power illuminate the conflict between divine omnipotence and human autonomy? ... Deborah Sawyer discusses this crucial yet unresolved question in the context of contemporary and postmodern ideas about gender and power, based on fresh examination of a number of texts from Hebrew and Christian scripture ... Such texts offer striking parallels to contemporary gender theories (particularly those of Luce Irigaray and Judith Butler), which have unravelled given notions of power and constructed identity. Through the study of gender in terms of its application by biblical writers as a theological strategy, we can observe how these writers use female characters to undermine human masculinity, through their 'higher' intention to elevate the biblical God ... God, Gender and the Bible demonstrates that both maleness and femaleness are constructed in the light of divine omnipotence. Unlike many approaches to the Bible that offer hegemonist interpretations, such as those that are explicitly Christian or Jewish, or liberationist or feminist, this enlightening and readable study sustains and works with the inconsistencies evident in biblical literature"--Jacket.
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| Other form: | Print version: Sawyer, Deborah F., 1956- God, gender and the Bible. London ; New York : Routledge, 2002 041517483X 0415174848
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| Standard no.: | 10.4324/9780203995303
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