TABOO OR NOT TABOO: SEXUALITY AND FAMILY IN THE HEBREW BIBLE.(Review)

From: Theological Studies | Date: September 1, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

TABOO OR NOT TABOO: SEXUALITY AND FAMILY IN THE HEBREW BIBLE. By Ilona N. Rashkow. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2000. Pp. x + 195. $22.

Rashkow presents a provocative interpretation of several familiar biblical stories in this mostly readable volume. Her theoretical approach is feminist and literary--emphasizing the reader's response--and heavily influenced by the psychoanalytic theory of Freud and Lacan. She focuses on those biblical stories that bring to the forefront the "dysfunctional" family, defined as "those family relationships that are proscribed in the text and hence ...

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