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Article
Publication Date
5-12-2019
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Concilium
Abstract
This essay applies queer theories of gender fluidity and gender performativity to readings of rabbinic parables. Although parables in rabbinic literature have been explored for their theological insights, they have not been placed in conversation with understandings of gender that emerge from queer theory. This essay suggests that queer readings of parables offer a compelling counter-narrative to an always and singularly rigid, binary construction of gender in rabbinic sources. Rabbinic parables, which highlight gender fluidity, multiplicity, and instability, illuminate a queer theology at the heart of rabbinic understandings of gender, God, and Israel.
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Gwynn Kessler.
(2019).
"Queering Jewish Theology In Parables".
Concilium.
https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-religion/400
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