Chairs

Description

Gender criticism is a rapidly growing field, with an important development of new theoretical perspectives. From focus solely on women in biblical texts and in the world "behind" the texts, attention has today shifted to critical analyses of gender discourses, focusing on both masculinity and femininity. The field today also includes queer studies, where an awareness of the instability in constructions of gender and sexuality opens for new readings.

Programme

This session provides a forum for gender criticism in the EABS, and especially for papers contributing to the theoretical development on the field. We welcome both Hebrew Bible and New Testament scholars as well as scholars from related disciplines (Jewish studies, Early Christianity, the Graeco-Roman World, etc.)

At the conference in Tarttu, July 2010, one session will be held with the following papers:

Karin Tillberg "One is not born a stranger, one becomes one - A study in the ethnicity and sexuality of the Foreign Woman of Proverbs", Ursula Rapp "Constructions of Woman and Wisdom in the Book of Ben Sirah", John Schmitt ""The Hebrew Bible and the "Non)ambiguity of Ancient Israel's Gender", Samuel Tongue "Scripted Bodies:A multi-dimensional writer-response to Genesis 32:22-32"