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dc.contributor.authorDyer, Rebekah
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-17T11:30:01Z
dc.date.available2020-04-17T11:30:01Z
dc.date.issued2020-03-27
dc.identifier267473528
dc.identifier6db92fcf-ed27-4be8-a1f3-79a6e45ad7e9
dc.identifier.citationDyer , R 2020 , ' Envisioning fire theophanies as gender-neutral expressions of selfhood ' , Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies , vol. 1 , no. 2 , 3 , pp. 40-60 . https://doi.org/10.17613/pnwy-5e56en
dc.identifier.issn2633-0695
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-2864-760X/work/72360786
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/19818
dc.description.abstractThe Bible is not an obvious source of affirmation for non-binary or agender identities. Commentaries on gender in the Bible focus on narratives in which gender is foregrounded by the text, and queering these narratives requires negotiation around binary categories of gender. This article proposes that biblical narratives which portray God through gender-neutral images may speak especially to non-binary and agender identities. This premise can be demonstrated by applying a genderqueer hermeneutic to two biblical fire theophanies: Moses’ encounter at the burning bush (Exod 3) and the arrival of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost (Acts 2). Exodus 3 and Acts 2 describe encounters with the divine in which divine selfhood is revealed in gender-neutral or ungendered terms. The deeply personal nature of divine self-disclosure within these encounters is underpinned by expressions of selfhood which exist outside binary categories of gender—indeed, beyond gendered categories altogether. Far from being irrelevant to the discussion of gender, gender-neutral images in the Bible offer a method of “re-imaging” divine selfhood in ways which affirm genderqueer expressions of self.
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dc.format.extent408034
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofJournal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studiesen
dc.subjectGenderqueeren
dc.subjectAgenderen
dc.subjectNon-binaryen
dc.subjectTheopaniesen
dc.subjectExodusen
dc.subjectActsen
dc.subjectBurning bushen
dc.subjectPentecosten
dc.subjectGoden
dc.subjectimago Deien
dc.subjectPersonhooden
dc.subjectFire imageryen
dc.subjectBL Religionen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subject.lccBLen
dc.titleEnvisioning fire theophanies as gender-neutral expressions of selfhooden
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Divinityen
dc.identifier.doi10.17613/pnwy-5e56
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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