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Construction of gender and identity in Genesis : the subject and the other

Title
Construction of gender and identity in Genesis : the subject and the other / Karalina Matskevich.
Author
Matskevich, Karalina
Publication
  • London ; New York : T&T Clark, 2019.
  • ©2019

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Description
vi, 237 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
Karalina Matskevich examines the structures that map out the construction of gendered and national identities in Genesis 2-3 and 12-36. Matskevich shows how the dominant 'Subject' - the androcentric ha'adam and the ethnocentric Israel - is perceived in relation to and over against the 'Other', represented respectively as female and foreign. Using the tools of narratology, semiotics and psychoanalysis, Matskevich highlights the contradiction inherent in the project of dominance, through which the Subject seeks to suppress the transforming power of difference it relies on for its signification. Thus, in Genesis 2-3 ha'adam can only emerge as a complex Subject in possession of knowledge with the help of woman, the transforming Other to whom the narrator (and Yahweh) attributes both the agency and the blame. Similarly, the narratives of Genesis 12-36 show a conflicted attitude to places of alterity: Egypt, the fertile and seductive space that threatens annihilation, and Haran, the 'mother's land', a complex metaphor for the feminine. The construction of identity in these narratives largely relies on the symbolic fecundity of the Other.
Series Statement
  • Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 647
  • T & T Clark library of biblical studies
Uniform Title
  • Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 647.
  • T & T Clark library of biblical studies.
Subject
  • Bible. > Criticism, interpretation, etc
  • Bible
  • Bibel
  • Identity (Psychology) > Biblical teaching
  • Sex in the Bible
  • Gender identity in the Bible
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sheffield, 2013 under title: The subject and the other : construction of gender and identity.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-226) and indexes.
Contents
The subject and knowledge in Genesis 2-3 -- The subject and the land in the Abraham cycle (Gen. 11.27-25.18) -- The mothers and the mother's land in the Jacob narrative (Gen.25.19-37.1).
Call Number
JFE 19-3651
ISBN
  • 9780567673763
  • 0567673766
  • 9780567673770 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9780567686183 (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
1084323998
Author
Matskevich, Karalina, author.
Title
Construction of gender and identity in Genesis : the subject and the other / Karalina Matskevich.
Publisher
London ; New York : T&T Clark, 2019.
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 647
T & T Clark library of biblical studies
Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 647.
T & T Clark library of biblical studies.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-226) and indexes.
Research Call Number
JFE 19-3651
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