The Intercourse of Knowledge: On Gendering Desire and 'Sexuality' in the Hebrew Bible

by Athalya Brenner

This groundbreaking book, which builds on the author's earlier work in On Gendering Texts , studies how, by what means and to what extent human love, desire and sex, and possibly even 'sexuality', are gendered in the Hebrew Bible. Following a classification and gendering of the linguistic and semantic data, the investigation looks into the construction of male and female bodies in language and ideologies; the praxis and ideology of sex, procreation and contraception; deviation from socio-sexual boundaries (e.g. incest, rape, adultery, homosexuality, prostitution); eroticism and "pornoprophetics". Finally, the work discusses some of the wider sociological and theological implications of the findings.

200 pages, Leather Bound

First published February 1, 1997

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[Jessi · Rating 2 out of 5]

go girl, give us nothing!