God’s Bod: An Anatomy of YHVH, The Israelite Deity
with Shulamit (Barbara) Thiede
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When
Thursdays - 8 Weeks
7:00 - 8:30 pm ET/4:00 - 5:30 pm PT
Starts March 20, 2025
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The dogma — Ancient Israelites imagined the divine in radically new ways. YHVH, accordingly, was a being without a body, imageless, universal, and singular in the heavens. The texts: In Tanakh, YHVH is depicted in physical terms, from feet to face and belly to bowel. Even God’s front and “hinder parts” get attention (along with what YHVH does with them). In this course we will explore godly parts and godly doings, focusing on the fleshy. Does YHVH have a sex life? Does YHVH ever take on the role of mother? Are there moments when a transgender reading is evoked by the biblical text? Is YHVH’s masculine performance as toxic as it seems? In Tanakh, as it turns out, the divine body is divine nature.
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This class will be recorded and available to enrolled students to watch later.
Cost
This course is available at a sliding scale cost of $359 (the true cost), $299 or $239.
If you can afford the full price, we hope you will choose that option, which allows us to continue to offer lower rates and scholarships to those who otherwise would not be able to access this learning because of financial barriers.
If you need financial aid beyond the sliding scale, please fill out this simple form, and we will get right back to you.
with Shulamit (Barbara) Thiede
—
When
Thursdays - 8 Weeks
7:00 - 8:30 pm ET/4:00 - 5:30 pm PT
Starts March 20, 2025
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The dogma — Ancient Israelites imagined the divine in radically new ways. YHVH, accordingly, was a being without a body, imageless, universal, and singular in the heavens. The texts: In Tanakh, YHVH is depicted in physical terms, from feet to face and belly to bowel. Even God’s front and “hinder parts” get attention (along with what YHVH does with them). In this course we will explore godly parts and godly doings, focusing on the fleshy. Does YHVH have a sex life? Does YHVH ever take on the role of mother? Are there moments when a transgender reading is evoked by the biblical text? Is YHVH’s masculine performance as toxic as it seems? In Tanakh, as it turns out, the divine body is divine nature.
—
This class will be recorded and available to enrolled students to watch later.
Cost
This course is available at a sliding scale cost of $359 (the true cost), $299 or $239.
If you can afford the full price, we hope you will choose that option, which allows us to continue to offer lower rates and scholarships to those who otherwise would not be able to access this learning because of financial barriers.
If you need financial aid beyond the sliding scale, please fill out this simple form, and we will get right back to you.
with Shulamit (Barbara) Thiede
—
When
Thursdays - 8 Weeks
7:00 - 8:30 pm ET/4:00 - 5:30 pm PT
Starts March 20, 2025
—
The dogma — Ancient Israelites imagined the divine in radically new ways. YHVH, accordingly, was a being without a body, imageless, universal, and singular in the heavens. The texts: In Tanakh, YHVH is depicted in physical terms, from feet to face and belly to bowel. Even God’s front and “hinder parts” get attention (along with what YHVH does with them). In this course we will explore godly parts and godly doings, focusing on the fleshy. Does YHVH have a sex life? Does YHVH ever take on the role of mother? Are there moments when a transgender reading is evoked by the biblical text? Is YHVH’s masculine performance as toxic as it seems? In Tanakh, as it turns out, the divine body is divine nature.
—
This class will be recorded and available to enrolled students to watch later.
Cost
This course is available at a sliding scale cost of $359 (the true cost), $299 or $239.
If you can afford the full price, we hope you will choose that option, which allows us to continue to offer lower rates and scholarships to those who otherwise would not be able to access this learning because of financial barriers.
If you need financial aid beyond the sliding scale, please fill out this simple form, and we will get right back to you.
Meet Shulamit
Shulamit (Barbara) Thiede (she/her) was ordained as a rabbi and spiritual director through ALEPH Ordination programs and serves a small havurah in Concord, N.C. She is a professor of Biblical Studies at UNC Charlotte. Her academic work focuses primarily on the structures of hegemonic masculinity and the performance of masculinities in biblical texts. She is the author of Male Friendship, Homosociality, and Women in the Hebrew Bible: Malignant Fraternities and Rape Culture in the House of David: A Company of Men as well as various articles on masculinity and feminist biblical scholarship. She has just completed a new monograph entitled Divine Masculinity in the Book of Samuel: How Yhwh Models the Man. She blogs at adrenaline-drash.org and, in the spare time she wishes she had, grows her own vegetables and composts every last compostible thing she can.
