- Title
- Spermatic spluttering pens: concerning the construction and breakdown of prophetic masculinity
- Creator
- Boer, Roland
- Relation
- Prophets Male and Female: Gender and Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Ancient Near East p. 215-235
- Relation
- Ancient Israel and Its Literature 15
- Relation
- http://www.sbl-site.org/publications/default.aspx
- Publisher
- Society of Biblical Literature
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- This study is an exercise in uncovering (and I use the word deliberately) the earthiness and indeed crudity of the biblical language of prophetic masculinities. It is all very well in the polite circles of (usually religiously driven) academia to speak of the dominant patriarchies of the Bible or of the masculinities that saturate many of its texts, but these are convenient abstractions, a relieved stride toward the euphemisms that enable us to avoid the earthiness of those texts. So, for the sake of avoiding such euphemisms, I seek to be as crude as the biblical texts themselves, with no apology given apart from the need to be forthright in our interpretation. The following study has two sections: one - organizing the sausage test - concerning the construction of the prophetic universe, particularly in terms of the of the power claimed through the act of writing; the other - too many dicks - showing how that word breaks down through its own impossibility. The focus is the provocatively crude prophetic text known as Ezekiel. However, in order to situate that argument, a few theoretical observations are in order, dealing with ideology, hegemony, and semantic fields. More theory will follow later in the study, but these are sufficient as an opening.
- Subject
- prophetic masculinities; Bible; Ezekiel; crudity
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1059442
- Identifier
- uon:16606
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781589837768
- Language
- eng
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