Are We Not Men?: Unstable Masculinity in the Hebrew Prophets

by Rhiannon Graybill

Are We Not Men? offers an innovative approach to gender and embodiment in the Hebrew Bible, revealing the male body as a source of persistent difficulty for the Hebrew prophets. Drawing together key moments in prophetic embodiment, Graybill demonstrates that the prophetic body is a queer body, and its very instability makes possible new understandings of biblical masculinity. Prophecy disrupts the performance of masculinity and demands new ways of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190227362
• ISBN13: 9780190227364
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"