Animal Studies, Feminism, and Biblical Interpretation

What can animal studies contribute to feminist biblical interpretation? This essay explores this question by calling attention to the role of feminist and gender analysis in contemporary interdisciplinary animal studies. Such studies point out that animals are often associated with women and with ra...

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Main Author: Stone, Ken 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2020
In: The Oxford handbook of feminist approaches to the Hebrew Bible
Year: 2020
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Animals / Derrida, Jacques 1930-2004 / Philistines / Sacrifice (Religion) / Feminism / Interpretation of
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
HA Bible
HB Old Testament
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B carnophallogocentrism
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Summary:What can animal studies contribute to feminist biblical interpretation? This essay explores this question by calling attention to the role of feminist and gender analysis in contemporary interdisciplinary animal studies. Such studies point out that animals are often associated with women and with racial and ethnic others. After summarizing key positions from animal studies, the essay turns to several texts from the Pentateuch and the Former Prophets to outline the association between animals and women and ethnic others (especially Philistines) in biblical literature. The association demonstrates that another layer of complexity to male domination—or carnophallogocentrism—structures biblical literature.
ISBN:0190462698
Contains:Enthalten in: The Oxford handbook of feminist approaches to the Hebrew Bible
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190462673.013.36