By Gregg Drinkwater, Joshua Lesser, Judith Plaskow, David Shneer
ISBN-10: 0814720129
ISBN-13: 9780814720127
Within the Jewish culture, analyzing of the Torah follows a calendar cycle, with a selected element assigned every one week. those weekly parts, learn aloud in synagogues world wide, were topic to interpretation and statement for hundreds of years. Following in this historic culture, Torah Queeries brings jointly a few of the world’s best rabbis, students, and writers to interpret the Torah via a "bent lens". With commentaries at the fifty-four weekly Torah parts and 6 significant Jewish vacations, the concise but sizeable writings accumulated the following open up stimulating new insights and spotlight formerly missed perspectives.This highly wealthy assortment unites the voices of lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and straight-allied writers, together with essentially the most significant figures in modern American Judaism. All convey to the desk specific tools of studying and reading that let the Torah to talk to fashionable issues of sexuality, id, gender, and LGBT lifestyles. Torah Queeries deals cultural critique, social statement, and a imaginative and prescient of neighborhood transformation, all performed via biblical interpretation. Written to interact readers, draw them in, and, every now and then, galvanize them, Torah Queeries examines themes as divergent because the Levitical sexual prohibitions, the adventure of the Exodus, the rape of Dinah, the lifetime of Joseph, and the ritual practices of the traditional Israelites. such a lot powerfully, the commentaries the following chart a way forward for inclusion and social justice deeply rooted within the Jewish textual tradition.A exertions of highbrow rigor, social justice, and private passions, Torah Queeries is a thrilling and demanding contribution to the venture of democratizing Jewish groups, and a necessary consultant to figuring out the intersection of queerness and Jewishness.
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Called and consulted about the decision to stay or go. A point of background: From approximately the 7th to the 10th century CE a group of men who came to be known as the Masoretes engaged in a process of standardizing the Biblical text (from the different versions and oral traditions that were known to them). They added letters (primarily vowels) and systematic notes for vocalization to the otherwise vowelless, punctuationless text. In some cases they made marginal notes indicating either their discomfort with a scribal tradition or the existence of competing traditions.
Jerusalem Talmud, Berachot 14a. 27. Bereshit Rabbah 8. 28. Isaiah 56:4ff. 29. In 2006, HUC-JIR ordained Eliot Kukla, the first rabbi who was admitted as a woman and ordained as a man. Reuben Zellman, the first to apply to a seminary as openly transgender, was admitted to HUC-JIR in spring 2003. 30. Fausto-Sterling, Myths of Gender, 31. See also Anne Fausto-Sterling, “The Five Sexes, Revisited,” Sciences (New York Academy of Sciences) (July 2000); and Claudia Dreifus, “A Conversation with Anne Fausto-Sterling: Exploring What Makes Us Male or Female,” New York Times, January 2, 2001.
Castration is one way to deprive a man of all male privilege and power. Male-male rape is another way to show brutally and graphically who is in charge. In the ancient world it was what conquering generals did to their defeated foes. Penetrative anal intercourse in highly patriarchal societies symbolically empowers the penetrator and humiliates the penetrated. It turns women into wives and men into objects of scorn. This reading of the midrash also solves one of the puzzles that has confounded the Biblical commentators.
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