Construction of gender and identity in Genesis : the subject and the other / Karalina Matskevich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matskevich, Karalina, author.

Series:

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies.

The library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Genesis--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Women in the Bible.

Outsiders in the Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2019.

Summary:

"Karalina Matskevich examines the structures that map out the construction of gendered and national identities in Genesis 2-3 and 12-36. Matskevich shows how the dominant 'Subject' - the androcentric ha'adam and the ethnocentric Israel - is perceived in relation to and over against the 'Other', represented respectively as female and foreign. Using the tools of narratology, semiotics and psychoanalysis, Matskevich highlights the contradiction inherent in the project of dominance, through which the Subject seeks to suppress the transforming power of difference it relies on for its signification. Thus, in Genesis 2-3 ha'adam can only emerge as a complex Subject in possession of knowledge with the help of woman, the transforming Other to whom the narrator (and Yahweh) attributes both the agency and the blame. Similarly, the narratives of Genesis 12-36 show a conflicted attitude to places of alterity: Egypt, the fertile and seductive space that threatens annihilation, and Haran, the 'mother's land', a complex metaphor for the feminine. The construction of identity in these narratives largely relies on the symbolic fecundity of the Other."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1. The Subject and Knowledge in Genesis 2-3

2. The Subject and the Land in the Abraham Cycle (Genesis 11.27-25.18)

3. The Mothers and the Mother's Land in the Jacob Narrative (Gen. 25.19-37.1)

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index of Authors

Index of Biblical References.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780567686183

0567686183

9780567673787

0567673782

9780567673770

0567673774

OCLC:

1113683874