Sex, Gender & The Bible

(4 Credits)

This course investigates the constitution of male and female -- both human and divine -- in the Hebrew Bible through close readings of selected biblical texts. We probe the difference between biblical gender roles and their analogues in the Greco-Christian tradition and its 20th-century heir – Freudian psychoanalysis. We also ask what light biblical views on sexual difference can shed on contemporary feminist demands for equal-rights. No prerequisites.