A Transgender Gaze at Genesis 38

While queer interpretation of the Hebrew Bible has begun to flourish, readings which focus particularly on trans and gender-diverse experiences remain lacking. In this article, I offer a trans reading of Gen 38, the Judah and Tamar narrative, drawing the text into dialogue with a trans hermeneutic....

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Autor principal:	Samuel Ross
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Publicado:	University of Sheffield 2020
Materias:	tamar genesis 38 transphobia transgender gaze queer interpretation The Bible BS1-2970
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:febb82e8b8e54e4c88b95ee1c7883d282021-11-18T14:47:02ZA Transgender Gaze at Genesis 382633-069510.17613/wbs2-qj93https://doaj.org/article/febb82e8b8e54e4c88b95ee1c7883d282020-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://hcommons.org/deposits/view/hc:29252/CONTENT/2.-sam-ross-final-25-39.pdf/https://doaj.org/toc/2633-0695While queer interpretation of the Hebrew Bible has begun to flourish, readings which focus particularly on trans and gender-diverse experiences remain lacking. In this article, I offer a trans reading of Gen 38, the Judah and Tamar narrative, drawing the text into dialogue with a trans hermeneutic. This allows me to reflect on trans and gender-diverse experiences while also shedding new light on the biblical narrative. In the course of this reading, I focus on three narrative aspects which I believe are particularly relevant to trans and gender-diverse lives: Tamar’s precarity, her engagement in sex work, and the complexity of her motives for doing so. This reading is intended to counter transphobic uses of the Bible, contributing to a growing body of trans affirmative biblical studies and providing some new answers to questions about the text.Samuel RossUniversity of Sheffieldarticletamargenesis 38transphobiatransgender gazequeer interpretationThe BibleBS1-2970ENJournal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, Vol 1, Iss 2, Pp 25-39 (2020)
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description	While queer interpretation of the Hebrew Bible has begun to flourish, readings which focus particularly on trans and gender-diverse experiences remain lacking. In this article, I offer a trans reading of Gen 38, the Judah and Tamar narrative, drawing the text into dialogue with a trans hermeneutic. This allows me to reflect on trans and gender-diverse experiences while also shedding new light on the biblical narrative. In the course of this reading, I focus on three narrative aspects which I believe are particularly relevant to trans and gender-diverse lives: Tamar’s precarity, her engagement in sex work, and the complexity of her motives for doing so. This reading is intended to counter transphobic uses of the Bible, contributing to a growing body of trans affirmative biblical studies and providing some new answers to questions about the text.
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A Transgender Gaze at Genesis 38

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