| Construction of Gender and Identity in Genesis: The Subject and the Other Contributor(s): Matskevich, Karalina (Author), Mein, Andrew (Editor), Camp, Claudia V. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0567673766 ISBN-13: 9780567673763 Publisher: T&T Clark OUR PRICE: $132.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2019 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Biblical Studies - Old Testament - General |
| Dewey: 222.110 |
| LCCN: 2020478240 |
| Series: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.4" W x 9.3" (0.85 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Matskevich, Karalina: - Karalina Matskevich studied Theology at the Missionary Institute London and the Catholic Institute Paris before receiving a PhD in Biblical Studies from Sheffield. She now lectures at Heythrop College in London, UK.Camp, Claudia V.: - Claudia V. Camp is Professor of Religion at Texas Christian University, USA and was on the steering committee of the Seminar. She is currently co-general editor of the LHBOTS series, as well as the author or editor of 4 books and numerous articles.Mein, Andrew: - Andrew Mein is Tutor in Old Testament, Westcott House, Cambridge. |