How does one “lie with a woman”? The performance of gender in the Holiness Code (<em>Leviticus</em> 17-26)
The homophobia of a number of Christian and Jewish denominations can be traced back to two verses in the Hebrew Bible, Leviticus 18:22 and Leviticus 20:13. One generally overlooked characteristic of both these passages is that their normative thrust is gendered. My argument will start from this obvi...
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Università di Pisa
2020-04-01
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| Series: | Whatever |
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| Online Access: | https://whatever.cirque.unipi.it/index.php/journal/article/view/50 |