A professor at the University of Dayton suggested in an op-ed that the Bible paints gender as a spectrum.
Article image A professor at the University of Dayton suggested in an op-ed that the Bible paints gender as a spectrum.
University of Dayton Professor of Hebrew Bible Esther Brownsmith wrote a piece in January for the Dayton Daily News in which she argued that scripture “portrays gender as a colorful spectrum.”
Though she warns her audience that the bible was written in a patriarchal tone, she believes that it still contains examples of people “reimagin[ing] and reshap[ing] their gender identities,” and one of her examples in the Dayton Daily News opinion piece was the claim that “Mordecai breast-fed his cousin Esther.” [RELATED: Federal government spent $1 million to butcher basic biology in three states] Brownsmith refers to Mordecai “bringing up” Esther in the book of Esther 2:7, which reads in full: […]
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