God's Phallus And Other Problems for Men And Monotheism

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.Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard is the author of 'God's Phallus And Other Problems for Men And Monotheism ', published 1994 under ISBN 9780756784317 and ISBN 075678431X.