Queer And Trans Torah: Horizons Of Possibility

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2025

Published In

The Palgrave Handbook Of Queer And Trans Studies In Religion

Abstract

This chapter provides a survey of queer and trans readings of midrashic and talmudic texts that are becoming more widely known through published works. After some introductory discussion about the context from and within which queer and trans torah emerges, the chapter presents an overview of scholarship focused on halakhic constructions of gender. The chapter then discusses the relatively scant attention to midrashic sources and moves on to provide some theoretical underpinnings and examples for future approaches to queering and transing rabbinic traditions through theories of gender performativity and multiplicity. It ends with a brief reconsideration of the question of anachronism in LGBTQ scholarship, and it offers rabbinic interpretative strategies as historical precedents for trans, non-binary gender, and queer uses of anachronism.

Published By

Palgrave Macmillan

Editor(s)

M. M. Wilcox

Comments

This work is freely available courtesy of the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative.

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