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Her innovation is bringing the male prophetic body, not just prophetic words, under consideration. Graybill's methodological approach opens up new and exciting avenues. Considering the prophetic books alongside modern intertexts that draw from a variety of fields, from psychoanalysis to film, allows readers to discover new sides to the texts heretofore unexplored As a whole, Are We Not Men? is a brilliant little book that should be required reading for any scholar of biblical masculinity and queer studies. --Sarah E.G. Fein, Ancient Jew Review Are We Not Men? is a beautiful book that accomplishes an amazing tour de force in the field of synchronic intertextual studies with a plurality of very productive interactions between ancient and contemporary texts. Moreover, Graybill succeeds in 'gendering' prophetic male bodies and revealing their unstable masculinities. This monograph will most definitely provide food for thought to biblical, queer, and feminist scholars on issues of gender, embodiment, and prophecy. --Reading Religion Rhiannon Graybill offers an important book that is also a delight to readserious and playful, inventive and inviting. From Isaiah's years of nakedness to Jonah's days in a fish, with help from the poetry of Anne Carson and case studies by Freud, we are led to see and then to think the bodies of Hebrew prophets in all their stubborn strangeness. --Mark Jordan, Mellon Professor of Christian Thought, Harvard University A clear, compelling book from one of the most important new voices in biblical studies. Are We Not Men? beautifully assembles prophetic texts, feminist philosophy, queer theory, poetry and film in a stunning account of prophecy as a gender-bending bodily experience that exposes the vulnerability and power of life in the flesh. The prophets appear in an altogether new and totally relevant form in this urgently needed book. --Rachel Havrelock, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago Rhiannon Graybill's book demonstrates why biblical scholars should take the risk of engaging with a wide range of interdisciplinary conversation partners. Through her engagement with Carol Cleaver's theorization of gender and horror films, with a psychoanalytic model of hysteria, and with the drama of 'unmanning' in a nineteenth-century memoir, Graybill makes a persuasive argument for reading the bodies of the prophets of the Hebrew Bible as queer bodies. --Sean D. Burke, Associate Professor of Religion, Luther College, Decorah IA Are We Not Men? is a beautiful book that accomplishes an amazing tour de force in the field of synchronic intertextual studies with a plurality of very productive interactions between ancient and contemporary texts. Moreover, Graybill succeeds in 'gendering' prophetic male bodies and revealing their unstable masculinities. This monograph will most definitely provide food for thought to biblical, queer, and feminist scholars on issues of gender, embodiment, and prophecy. --Reading Religion Rhiannon Graybill offers an important book that is also a delight to read-serious and playful, inventive and inviting. From Isaiah's years of nakedness to Jonah's days in a fish, with help from the poetry of Anne Carson and case studies by Freud, we are led to see and then to think the bodies of Hebrew prophets in all their stubborn strangeness. --Mark Jordan, Mellon Professor of Christian Thought, Harvard University A clear, compelling book from one of the most important new voices in biblical studies. Are We Not Men? beautifully assembles prophetic texts, feminist philosophy, queer theory, poetry and film in a stunning account of prophecy as a gender-bending bodily experience that exposes the vulnerability and power of life in the flesh. The prophets appear in an altogether new and totally relevant form in this urgently needed book. --Rachel Havrelock, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago Rhiannon Graybill's book demonstrates why biblical scholars should take the risk of engaging with a wide range of interdisciplinary conversation partners. Through her engagement with Carol Cleaver's theorization of gender and horror films, with a psychoanalytic model of hysteria, and with the drama of 'unmanning' in a nineteenth-century memoir, Graybill makes a persuasive argument for reading the bodies of the prophets of the Hebrew Bible as queer bodies. --Sean D. Burke, Associate Professor of Religion, Luther College, Decorah IA -Rhiannon Graybill offers an important book that is also a delight to read-serious and playful, inventive and inviting. From Isaiah's years of nakedness to Jonah's days in a fish, with help from the poetry of Anne Carson and case studies by Freud, we are led to see and then to think the bodies of Hebrew prophets in all their stubborn strangeness.---Mark Jordan, Mellon Professor of Christian Thought, Harvard University -A clear, compelling book from one of the most important new voices in biblical studies. Are We Not Men? beautifully assembles prophetic texts, feminist philosophy, queer theory, poetry and film in a stunning account of prophecy as a gender-bending bodily experience that exposes the vulnerability and power of life in the flesh. The prophets appear in an altogether new and totally relevant form in this urgently needed book.---Rachel Havrelock, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago -Rhiannon Graybill's book demonstrates why biblical scholars should take the risk of engaging with a wide range of interdisciplinary conversation partners. Through her engagement with Carol Cleaver's theorization of gender and horror films, with a psychoanalytic model of hysteria, and with the drama of 'unmanning' in a nineteenth-century memoir, Graybill makes a persuasive argument for reading the bodies of the prophets of the Hebrew Bible as queer bodies.- --Sean D. Burke, Associate Professor of Religion, Luther College, Decorah IA

-Rhiannon Graybill offers an important book that is also a delight to read-serious and playful, inventive and inviting. From Isaiah's years of nakedness to Jonah's days in a fish, with help from the poetry of Anne Carson and case studies by Freud, we are led to see and then to think the bodies of Hebrew prophets in all their stubborn strangeness.---Mark Jordan, Mellon Professor of Christian Thought, Harvard University-A clear, compelling book from one of the most important new voices in biblical studies. Are We Not Men? beautifully assembles prophetic texts, feminist philosophy, queer theory, poetry and film in a stunning account of prophecy as a gender-bending bodily experience that exposes the vulnerability and power of life in the flesh. The prophets appear in an altogether new and totally relevant form in this urgently needed book.---Rachel Havrelock, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago-Rhiannon Graybill's book demonstrates why biblical scholars should take the risk of engaging with a wide range of interdisciplinary conversation partners. Through her engagement with Carol Cleaver's theorization of gender and horror films, with a psychoanalytic model of hysteria, and with the drama of 'unmanning' in a nineteenth-century memoir, Graybill makes a persuasive argument for reading the bodies of the prophets of the Hebrew Bible as queer bodies.- --Sean D. Burke, Associate Professor of Religion, Luther College, Decorah IA

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Rhiannon Graybill is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN. She holds a PhD in Near Eastern Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.

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