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Esther Brownsmith, PhD
@brownsmith.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Dayton. Studying dead languages and living ideas. Interested in Hebrew Bible, gender, fanfic theory, and accessible, liberatory pedagogy. She/her.
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Check out my latest article, available open access at @jibs-journal.bsky.social !

On the left, an oil painting depicts a beardless Black man in "oriental" clothing holding up a jeweled box. The right side is the following text: Eunuchs are precisely those who have a missing or defunct “hand”—specifically, a “hand” that is unable to procreate and produce offspring. This is no coincidence. Through its focus on the active hands of eunuchs, the book of Esther is making an argument about the royal world of its setting. ... In the book of Esther, power reproduces queerly, outside lines of biological lineage. —Esther Brownsmith, “Queer Futures and Phallic Humour in the Book of Esther” (access at bit.ly/jibs52)
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Esther Brownsmith, PhD
@brownsmith.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Dayton. Studying dead languages and living ideas. Interested in Hebrew Bible, gender, fanfic theory, and accessible, liberatory pedagogy. She/her.
397 followers201 following186 posts
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