Gendering Sarai: Reading Beyond Cisnormativity in Genesis 11:29–12:20 and 20:1–18
This article explores the way assumptions about gender prevalent in twenty-first century readers impact our understanding of Sarai. It interrogates the way a mere glimpse allows us to instantaneously assign a person gender, something trans theorist Julia Serano calls gendering. Through this article,...
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2020
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Open theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 496-509 |
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B Queer B Sarai B cisnormativity B Genesis B Transgender B Gender B Reader-response B ideological hermeneutics |
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