God, Gender and the Bible

by Deborah Sawyer

Book Overview

Deborah Sawyer discusses this crucial yet unresolved question in the context of contemporary and postmodern ideas about gender and power, based on fresh examination of a number of texts from Hebrew and Christian scripture. Such texts offer striking parallels to contemporary gender theories (particularly those of Luce Irigaray and Judith Butler), which have unravelled given notions of power and constructed identity. Through the study of gender in terms...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415174848
• ISBN13: 9780415174848
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 7.9"