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The soul of the stranger : reading God and Torah from a transgender perspective
- Title
- The soul of the stranger : reading God and Torah from a transgender perspective / Joy Ladin.
- Author
- Ladin, Joy, 1961-
- Publication
- Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2019]
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Details
- Description
- x, 184 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Reading some of the best-known Torah stories through the lens of transgender experience, Joy Ladin explores fundamental questions about how religious texts, traditions, and the understanding of God can be enriched by transgender perspectives, and how the Torah and trans lives can illuminate one another. Drawing on her own experience and lifelong reading practice, Ladin shows how the Torah, a collection of ancient texts that assume human beings are either male or female, speaks both to practical transgender concerns, such as marginalization, and to the challenges of living without a body or social role that renders one intelligible to others-challenges that can help us understand a God who defies all human categories. These creative, evocative readings transform our understanding of the Torah's portrayals of God, humanity, and relationships between them.
- Series Statement
- HBI series on Jewish women
- Uniform Title
- HBI series on Jewish women.
- Subjects
- United States
- Transgender people > Religious life > United States
- Gender identity in the Bible
- God (Judaism) > Knowableness
- God (Judaism) > Attributes
- Gender nonconformity > Religious aspects > Judaism
- Ladin, Joy, 1961-
- Bible > Transgender interpretations
- Jewish transgender people > Religious life > United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Shipwrecked with God -- The genesis of gender -- Trans experience in the Torah -- Close encounters with an incomprehensible God -- Reading between the binaries -- Knowing the soul of the stranger.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-3664
- ISBN
- 9781512600667
- 1512600660
- 9781512602937
- 1512602930
- LCCN
- 2018024055
- OCLC
- 1044781358
- Author
- Ladin, Joy, 1961- author.
- Title
- The soul of the stranger : reading God and Torah from a transgender perspective / Joy Ladin.
- Publisher
- Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- HBI series on Jewish womenHBI series on Jewish women.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Ladin, Joy, 1961- Soul of the stranger. Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2019] 9781512602944 (DLC) 2018033753
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-3664