Programme
This research unit promotes the feminist study of biblical literature with a focus on epistemological, hermeneutical, and methodological questions, through a critical exploration of the relation between “masculinity studies” and “feminist studies” in Hebrew Bible studies.
The goals are: (1) to inject innovative, creative, and challenging ideas from newly emerging area of critical masculinity studies into the field of feminist biblical studies; (2) to create a scholarly conversation about the contributions of biblical masculinity studies to the gendered study of the Hebrew Bible and interpretation histories in its intersectional appearances; (3) to foster collaboration among variously located scholars working in the field of feminist and masculinity biblical studies in the European and global contexts; (4) to interrogate biblical masculinity studies as an area of feminist biblical discourse and the current institutional and socio-political dynamics of feminist and gendered approaches to biblical texts, characters, and issues.