The Soul of the Stranger Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective / Joy Ladin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ladin, Joy, 1961- author.

Series:

HBI series on Jewish women

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ladin, Joy, 1961-.

Bible.

God (Judaism)--Knowableness.

God (Judaism)--Attributes.

Gender identity in the Bible.

Gender nonconformity--Religious aspects--Judaism.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource.)

Place of Publication:

Brandeis University Press

Summary:

Reading some of the best-known Torah stories through the lens of transgender experience, Joy Ladin explores fundamental questions about how religious texts, traditions, and the understanding of God can be enriched by transgender perspectives, and how the Torah and trans lives can illuminate one another. Drawing on her own experience and lifelong reading practice, Ladin shows how the Torah, a collection of ancient texts that assume human beings are either male or female, speaks both to practical transgender concerns, such as marginalization, and to the challenges of living without a body or social role that renders one intelligible to others-challenges that can help us understand a God who defies all human categories. These creative, evocative readings transform our understanding of the Torah's portrayals of God, humanity, and relationships between them.

Contents:

Introduction: shipwrecked with God

The genesis of gender

Trans experience in the Torah

Close encounters with an incomprehensible God

Reading between the binaries

Knowing the soul of the stranger.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781512602944

1512602949

OCLC:

1044780625