Tamar and the Patriarchy: A Feminist Analysis of Genesis

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Religion

 

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Katelyn G

 

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April 9, 2013

 

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University

 

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However, the story of Tamar and Judah in Genesis 38 deviates from this typicality, and often times has a feminist interpretation. The passage details the perversion of this system in the privileged males own interest, yet ultimately reinforces it, showing that God is the ultimate Patriarch. In a social system that glorifies one sex over the other in addition to relying on a hierarchy, it is not uncommon for an individual with a significant amount of social power to begin to think that he is above the law or even above God...
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Judah has already been established as a man who thinks himself above Hebrew tradition, especially when it comes to the laws of family and marriage; The Bible sets out to deliberately to make an example out of Judah's hubris, beginning with his name. At his birth, his mother, Leah, proclaims, "I will give praise, such that Judah means I will give praise to Yahweh" (Genesis 29:35)...
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