The Soul of the Stranger

Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective

Joy Ladin

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Brandeis University Press
20 November 2018

Religious issues & debates

Series: HBI Series on Jewish Women

Reading some of the best-known Torah stories through the lens of transgender experience, Joy Ladin explores fundamental questions about how religious texts, traditions, and the understanding of God can be enriched by transgender perspectives, and how the Torah and trans lives can illuminate one another. Drawing on her own experience and lifelong reading practice, Ladin shows how the Torah, a collection of ancient texts that assume human beings are either male or female, speaks both to practical transgender concerns, such as marginalization, and to the challenges of living without a body or social role that renders one intelligible to others-challenges that can help us understand a God who defies all human categories. These creative, evocative readings transform our understanding of the Torah's portrayals of God, humanity, and relationships between them.

By: Joy Ladin
Imprint: Brandeis University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 302g
ISBN: 9781512602937
ISBN 10: 1512602930
Series: HBI Series on Jewish Women
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 20 November 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Joy Ladin holds the David and Ruth Gottesman Chair in English at Stern College of Yeshiva University.

Reviews for The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective

This heartfelt, difficult work will introduce Jews and other readers of the Torah to fresh, sensitive approaches with room for broader human dignity. --Publishers Weekly (starred review)--Publishers Weekley, starred review Taken together, these chapters provide groundbreaking and vitally important readings of the Torah that have transformative potential for transgender and queer people as well as all others. --Journal of the American Academy of Religion For me, the best Torah and the better life come from a wrestle and a dance between a superbly sensitive human being in the right-now, and the ancient text. Ladin has done this in her transparent exploration of how her own Trans life, through joy and pain, has brought her new insights into Torah and into life that open both of them more fully. I found myself dancing in mind and heart and spirit as I read. Hallelu-Yah! --Rabbi Arthur Waskow, director of The Shalom Center and author of Godwrestling--Round 2