Introduction -- The materiality of Moses: the prophet's body in trouble -- The horror of Hosea: female bodies and masculine anxieties in Hosea 1-3 -- The hysteria of Jeremiah: gender and voice in the confessions -- The unmanning of Ezekiel: the prophet's body voluptuous and shattered in Ezekiel 1-5 -- The queer prophetic body -- Final reflections -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Index for Biblical references
Summary
'Are We Not Men?' offers an innovative approach to gender and embodiment in the Hebrew Bible. Graybill argues that the male body is a source of difficulty for the Hebrew prophets. This very instability of prophetic masculinity makes possible new understandings of biblical masculinity, as the prophetic body is revealed as a queer body
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 22, 2016)
