Examining Scripture in Light of Trans Women's Voices
This essay adds another voice to feminist and woman-centered voices in biblical interpretation: the transgender voice, specifically the trans woman voice. Drawn from interviews with transgender persons, the essay explores texts that support trans women and disrupts a binary understanding of gender....
| Published in: | The Oxford handbook of feminist approaches to the Hebrew Bible |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Oxford University Press
2020
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| In: |
The Oxford handbook of feminist approaches to the Hebrew Bible
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Transgender
/ Woman
/ Queer theory
/ Genesis
/ Bible. Genesis 1,27
/ Bible. Galaterbrief 3,28
/ Hermeneutics
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy HB Old Testament HC New Testament |
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Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Summary: | This essay adds another voice to feminist and woman-centered voices in biblical interpretation: the transgender voice, specifically the trans woman voice. Drawn from interviews with transgender persons, the essay explores texts that support trans women and disrupts a binary understanding of gender. I begin with some term definitions and a brief examination of the rich tapestry of women in Scripture who are valued for reasons other than procreation (i.e. Miriam, Deborah, Judith), suggesting that procreation alone is not a viable determinant for womanhood. The essay then turns to Gen. 1:27, a verse that many gender variant interpreters have embraced as confirmation that femininity and masculinity are found in the first human being as an androgyne. This interpretation is echoed in Paul’s use of the baptismal formula. The essay concludes with a reflection on the gifts that a transgender hermeneutic offers feminist and woman-centered methodologies. |
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| ISBN: | 0190462698 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Oxford handbook of feminist approaches to the Hebrew Bible
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190462673.013.31 |