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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.

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'Die detailreiche Studie stellt einen wichtigen Beitrag zur derzeitigen Genderdiskussion dar.' C. Maier, Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 1998.'This book is a very welcome addition to the growing study of gender relations in the HB.' Gale A. Yee, Religious Studies Review, 1998.

'Die detailreiche Studie stellt einen wichtigen Beitrag zur derzeitigen Genderdiskussion dar.' C. Maier, Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 1998.'This book is a very welcome addition to the growing study of gender relations in the HB.' Gale A. Yee, Religious Studies Review, 1998.

' Die detailreiche Studie stellt einen wichtigen Beitrag zur derzeitigen Genderdiskussion dar.'<br>C. Maier, Zeitschrift f]r die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 1998.' This book is a very welcome addition to the growing study of gender relations in the HB.'<br>Gale A. Yee, Religious Studies Review, 1998.<br>

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Athalya Brenner, Ph.D. (1979), University of Manchester, is Senior Lecturer at the Technion, Haifa, Israel, and Professor of Feminism and Christianity at the Catholic University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. She has published widely on feminist exegesis of the Hebrew Bible, including the first volume in this series, On Gendering Texts. Female and Male Voices in the Hebrew Bible (Brill, 1996), which was co-authored with Fokkelien van Dijk-Hemmes.

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