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Joseph's Womb: Gender Complexity in the Story of Joseph

December 2, 2021 Irwin Keller

Most striking to me are what seem to be bold hints in the text of Torah regarding an atypicality not only in Joseph’s lived gender, but in his (or their) body. The way that the language of “womb” and “knee” gravitate to Joseph in Torah in ways that they do not toward any other men speaks loudly of Joseph’s difference.

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In Queer Edge, Torah Talk Tags Joseph, Torah, transgender, intersex, gender-fluid, non-binary, queer, LGBTQ, LGBTQI, Genesis, Jacob, womb, knees, Bible, Hebrew Bible, Tanakh, gender, gender-queer
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