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

by Joy Ladin

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1512602930
• ISBN13: 9781512602937
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"