The Soul of the Stranger : : Reading God and Torah From a Transgender Perspective
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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.
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.
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HBI series on Jewish women
PUBLISHED
Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2019]
Year Published: 2019
Description: x, 184 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781512600667
1512600660
9781512602937
1512602930
SUBJECTS
Ladin, Joy, -- 1961-
Bible -- Transgender interpretations.
God (Judaism) -- Attributes.
God (Judaism) -- Knowableness.
Gender identity in the Bible.
Gender nonconformity -- Judaism.
Jewish transgender people -- Religious life -- United States.
Transgender people -- Religious life -- United States.