Are We Not Men?: Unstable Masculinity in the Hebrew Prophets

'are We Not Men?' Offers An Innovative Approach To Gender And Embodiment In The Hebrew Bible. Graybill Argues That The Male Body Is A Source Of Difficulty For The Hebrew Prophets. This Very Instability Of Prophetic Masculinity Makes Possible New Understandings Of Biblical Masculinity, As The Prophetic Body Is Revealed As A Queer Body. The Materiality Of Moses : The Prophet's Body In Trouble -- The Horror Of Hosea : Female Bodies And Masculine Anxieties In Hosea 1-3 -- The Hysteria Of Jeremiah : Gender And Voice In The Confessions -- The Unmanning Of Ezekiel : The Prophet's Body Voluptuous And Shattered In Ezekiel 1-5 -- The Queer Prophetic Body -- Final Reflections. Rhiannon Graybill. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.