Divine Masculinity in the Book of Samuel : How Yhwh Models the Man.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thiede, Barbara.

Series:

The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2026.

Summary:

Presents an exploration of Yhwh in the Books of Samuel as offering a gender-bending presentation of masculinity, exposing the deity's emotional and sexual needs versus his chosen men and the triangular male networks that result.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Chapter 1 Introduction

On Methods and Their Premises: Assessing Project Historicity

On Scholarly Ethics: Critical Empathy and Its Terminology

Who Is Writing, What Was Written: Investigator and Object

Yhwh's Life in the Books of Samuel: Chapter Descriptions

Chapter 2 Yhwh and 'am Yisrael (His Men and His Woman)

Introduction

On Semantic Fields: You Are What You Own (Or: Words and the Webs They Weave)

The Ark of the Covenant: A Backstory

The Ark's "Capture": Yhwh among the Philistines

Who Will Save Us from the Power of This Mighty God?

Conclusion

Chapter 3 Yhwh and Samuel: The Clone Connection

Yhwh Makes Himself a Baby, Takes a Child, and Creates a Man

Samuel's Glory Days: Yhwh's Prophet, Priest, and Judge

Yhwh's Avatar Goes Rogue: From Apex to Abyss

We Are What We (Forcibly) Learn: Samuel Masters the Masculine

Chapter 4 Yhwh and Saul: His Body Is Not His Own

Choosing Saul, Abusing Saul: Yhwh Models (Hyper)masculinity

Using Saul, Abusing Saul: Yhwh, Samuel, and Jonathan Take Turns

The End of Saul Is Not One

Chapter 5 Yhwh and David: A Biblical Bromance

The Honeymoon Period

David's Dance of Devotion

Assaults on Honor-Human and Divine

David's Fourfold Indemnity: The Wages of Divine Love

Chapter 6 Conclusion: How Yhwh Acts the Man

Introduction: What's in a Name?

From God's Phallus to Jacob's Wound (in Between and After): Some Reflections

References

Subject Index

Index of Biblical Citations.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780567709592