The Soul of the Stranger The Soul of the Stranger
HBI Series on Jewish Women

The Soul of the Stranger

Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective

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Publisher Description

Reading some of the best-known Torah stories through the lens of transgender experience, Joy Ladin explores fundamental questions about how religious texts, traditions, and the understanding of God can be enriched by transgender perspectives, and how the Torah and trans lives can illuminate one another. Drawing on her own experience and lifelong reading practice, Ladin shows how the Torah, a collection of ancient texts that assume human beings are either male or female, speaks both to practical transgender concerns, such as marginalization, and to the challenges of living without a body or social role that renders one intelligible to others—challenges that can help us understand a God who defies all human categories. These creative, evocative readings transform our understanding of the Torah’s portrayals of God, humanity, and relationships between them.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2018
November 20
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
208
Pages
PUBLISHER
Brandeis University Press
SELLER
Chicago Distribution Center
SIZE
813.6
KB
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