Gods Phallus And Other Problems For Men And Monotheism

Download or read book God's Phallus And Other Problems for Men And Monotheism written by Howard Eilberg-Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 1994-09-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The God of the Hebrew Bible is clearly male, yet until now no scholar has asked how God's maleness affects human men. In this groundbreaking volume, Howard Eilberg-Schwartz, an ordained rabbi, uses close readings of the Hebrew Bible, as well as insights from feminist & gender criticism, anthropology, & psychoanalysis, to explore the dilemmas created by the maleness of God for the men of ancient Judaism & for Jewish men today. In this absorbing & provocative exploration of the problems raised when men worship a male god (while trying to avoid the sexual implications of that worship at the same time), he uncovers many of the tensions & contradictions that bedevil conceptions of masculinity & male bonding to this day.