Jewish Thought Lecture: Alexandra Zirkle, “Re-imagining Sex: World-Building Exegesis and Heinrich Graetz’s Song of Songs”
708 Clemens HallAlexandra Zirkle of Boston University Presents: "Re-imagining Sex: World-Building Exegesis and Heinrich Graetz's Song of Songs" How are norms around gender and sexuality produced or subverted through the medium of biblical interpretation? This lecture illustrates how the famous historian and exegete, Heinrich Graetz, wielded biblical exegesis to subvert late nineteenth-century German tropes around Jewish sexuality […]