{"id":1200,"date":"2024-09-06T11:17:28","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T15:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2024-09-06T11:21:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T15:21:39","slug":"landscape-garden-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/2024\/09\/06\/landscape-garden-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"Landscape, Garden, Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Rethinking the Female Body in the Hebrew  Bible<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dr. Rhiannon Graybill<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>University of Richmond <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>September 12, 2024 \u2022 5:30 PM (EST)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lecture at Gilman Hall room #17 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> followed by a reception at the Smokler Center.<br>3109 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21218<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hebrew Bible is filled with peculiar, striking metaphorical representations of THE female body. A woman is (like) a land or<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>landscape. At the same time, the land itself is (like) a woman. The female body is a garden of delights\u2014and certain landscapes of delight, like the garden of Eden and the Promised Land, are (like) the female body. Other bodies are less pleasurable, more threatening: the female body is often portrayed as a leaky threat, posed to contaminate the social body and social order. Sometimes, it, or she, even becomes monstrous, an especially terrifying kind of \u201cmonstrous feminine.\u201d In this talk, I propose reading these metaphors of the female body together with the equally Weird bodies of contemporary feminist and queer fiction. I will argue that this practice of interpreting the biblical text with and through literature destabilizes conventional (paranoid) readings of female embodiment and opens new spaces of feminist and queer possibility. In addition to the biblical texts, I will discuss work by Vandana Singh, Callum Angus, Kathryn Harlan, and Julia Armfield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rethinking the Female Body in the Hebrew Bible Dr. Rhiannon Graybill University of Richmond September 12, 2024 \u2022 5:30 PM (EST) Lecture at Gilman Hall room #17 followed by a reception at the Smokler Center.3109 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21218 The Hebrew Bible is filled with peculiar, striking metaphorical representations of THE female body. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":617,"featured_media":1202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/617"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1208,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions\/1208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}