Research Catalog

Title

Male friendship, homosociality, and women in the Hebrew Bible : malignant fraternities / Barbara Thiede.

Author

Thiede, Barbara

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Description

ix, 177 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"Male alliances, partnerships, and friendships are fundamental to the Hebrew Bible. This book offers a detailed and explicit exploration of the ways in which shared sexual use of women and women's bodies engenders, sustains, and nourishes such relationships in the Hebrew Bible. Hebrew Bible narratives demonstrate that women and women's bodies are not merely used to foster and cultivate male homosociality, male friendship, and toxic hegemonic masculinity, but rather to engender it and make it possible in the first place. Thiede argues that homosocial bonds between divine and mortal males are part of a continual competition for power, rank, and honor, and that this competition depends on women's bodies for its expression. In a final chapter, she also explores whether female characters in the Hebrew Bible use male bodies to form friendships and alliances to advance female power, status, and rank. The book concludes by arguing that women are essential to the toxic biblical hegemonic masculinity we find in the Hebrew Bible, but only because their bodies are used to make it possible in the first place. This book is intended for scholars of the Hebrew Bible, as well as advanced undergraduate and graduate students in Religious Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Masculinity Studies, Queer Studies, and like fields. The book can also be read profitably by lay students of biblical literature, seminary students, and clergy"--

Series Statement

Routledge studies in the biblical world

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in the biblical world.

Subject

• Bible. > Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Bible
• Masculinity in the Bible
• Male friendship in literature
• Women in the Bible
• Female friendship in literature
• Man-woman relationships in the Bible

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Introduction. Honesty, transparency, and sight: some introduction -- Chapter 1. Genesis 38: "Lest we become a laughingstock" -- Chapter 2. David, Jonathan, and Saul: being good at being a man -- Chapter 3. 2 Samuel 13: rape in the royal house -- Chapter 4. Genesis 12, 20, and 26: Bromance in the Bible -- Chapter 5. Judges 19-21: The warrior God and his Levite soldier -- Chapter 6. Judges 4 & 5: Always mothers, never friends -- Conclusion. Toxic for women: conclusions on biblical hegemonic masculinity.

Call Number

JFE 22-287

ISBN

• 9780367344979
• 0367344971
• 9781032027807
• 1032027800

LCCN

2021001416

OCLC

1231959076

Author

Thiede, Barbara, author.

Title

Male friendship, homosociality, and women in the Hebrew Bible : malignant fraternities / Barbara Thiede.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge studies in the biblical world

Routledge studies in the biblical world.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Form:

Online version: Thiede, Barbara, Male friendship, homosociality, and women in the hebrew bible First. New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2021. 9780429326226 (DLC) 2021001417

Research Call Number

JFE 22-287