Athalya Brenner

The Intercourse of Knowledge: on Gendering Desire and 'sexuality' in the Hebrew Bible (Biblical Interpretation Series, V. 26) Athalya Brenner

A study of how, by what means, and to what extent, human love, desire and sex, and possibly even "sexuality", are gendered in the Hebrew Bible. Themes include: the construction of male and female bodies in language and ideologies; the praxis and ideology of sex, procreation and contraception; deviation from socio-sexual boundaries (eg incest, rape, adultery, homosexuality, prostitution); and eroticism and "pornographetics". There is also a classification and gendering of the linguistic and semantic data, and a discussion of some of the wider sociological and theological implications of the findings.