
The Soul of the Stranger
Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective
Joy Ladin(Author)
Brandeis University Press
Published on 18. December 2018
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-1-5126-0066-7 (ISBN)
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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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-5126-0066-7 (9781512600667)
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11/2018
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