The intercourse of knowledge
Subtitle: on gendering desire and 'sexuality' in the Hebrew Bible
By: by Athalya Brenner.
Series: Biblical interpretation series,; v. 26
Publisher: Brill
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Leiden; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: Bible. O.T. -- Feminist criticism; Bible. O.T. -- Terminology; Sex in the Bible; Women in the Bible; Sexual deviation -- Biblical teaching
Description: This book studies how, by what means and to what extent human love, desire and sex, and possibly even 'sexuality', are gendered in the Hebrew Bible.

Following a classification and gendering of the linguistic and semantic data, the investigation looks into 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 (e.g. incest, rape, adultery, homosexuality, prostitution); eroticism and 'pornoprophetics'. Finally, the work discusses some of the wider sociological and theological implications of the findings.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [182]-190).