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This is mentioned in the Jewish midrash, the idea of the androgynos is brought up in Genesis Rabbah, a Jewish commentary on the Bible written sometime between 300CE and 500CE. The commentator asserts that Adam , in the story of Creation , was created by God as an androgynos .
Jewish studies is a field that looks at Jews and Judaism, through such disciplines as history, anthropology, literary studies, linguistics, and sociology. As such, scholars of gender and Jewish studies are considering gender as the basis for understanding historical and contemporary Jewish societies. [3]
Jewish Law has specific legal obligation that differ for men and women, and thus gender becomes an exceedingly important aspect of one’s identity. When determining the legal gender of androgynos individuals, a minority of Jewish Law decisors, “posek”, classify androgynos individuals as completely male.
Jewish views of transgender people have varied by time and denomination. Rabbinic Jewish texts discuss six sex/gender categories. [71] [72] [73] The term saris (סָרִיס), generally translated to English as "eunuch" or "chamberlain", [74] appears 45 times in the Tanakh.
Ovid wrote the most influential narrative [18] of how Hermaphroditus became androgynous, emphasizing that, although the handsome youth was on the cusp of sexual adulthood, he rejected love as Narcissus had, at the site of a reflective pool. [19] There, the water nymph Salmacis saw and desired him. He spurned her, and she pretended to withdraw ...
In his time, Baruch Spinoza was a highly controversial figure in the Jewish community of Amsterdam due to the perception of his views as heretical. Instead of the classic literal vision of God as depicted by Jewish Religious text, Spinoza envisioned God as a presence that encompassed the entire universe and beyond, a view commonly known as ...
In 2003 Reuben Zellman became the first openly transgender person accepted to the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, [14] where he was ordained in 2010. [15] [16] Elliot Kukla, who came out as transgender six months before his ordination in 2006, was the first openly transgender person to be ordained by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) affirming denominations in Judaism (also called gay-affirming) are Jewish religious groups that welcome LGBTQ members and do not consider homosexuality to be a sin. They include both entire Jewish denominations, as well as individual synagogues. Some are composed mainly of non-LGBTQ members ...