The dance of gender
As gender is the foundational (though constructed) dialectic for every social structure, I am proposing that "dance" would be an effective metaphor for understanding the fluidity and dynamism of lived gender. Through the telling of David's dance (2 Sam 6:1-23) and an exegesis of the Q...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2014
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Neotestamentica
Year: 2014, Volume: 48, Issue: 1, Pages: 75-91 |
| Further subjects: | B
(Metaphor of) dance
B David's dance B Mary Douglas B Community boundaries (Jesus and Paul) B Parable of "Children in the Marketplace" B Gender fluidity versus gender stability |
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| Summary: | As gender is the foundational (though constructed) dialectic for every social structure, I am proposing that "dance" would be an effective metaphor for understanding the fluidity and dynamism of lived gender. Through the telling of David's dance (2 Sam 6:1-23) and an exegesis of the Q parable "Children in the Marketplace," I contrast Jesus' expression of community to Paul's: Jesus imagines the world as the "brokerless" Kingdom of God, a dynamic relationship between God and the people of God, and thus a more relaxed, undeveloped, or possibly inconsequential construction of gender, while Paul imagines a world with well-defined boundaries between his ecclesia, God, and the greater Graeco-Roman community. Paul's community-building strategies rely on strict maintenance of the body's boundaries (à la Mary Douglas). |
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| ISSN: | 2518-4628 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.10520/EJC160022 |