Sex, Sports, and Caster Semenya
Lauren McLaughlin’s brilliant blog entry: bit.ly Our community lives at www.nerdfighters.com Correction In Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, the person is XY chromosomally but has a female external appearance. For more info: bit.ly In which John discusses track star Caster Semenya, sports, sexual identification, internal testes, the ambiguity inherent to life, and the arbitrary rules of a sport that cannot accommodate such ambiguity.
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Unlikely heroes. Courageous women. Bloody battles. Miraculous triumphs. The Hebrew Scriptures, known also to Christians as the Old Testament and to Jews as the Tanakh, have given the world some of the greatest literature it has ever known. Passed down for centuries through the oral tradition, compiled between 500 and 100 BCE, and finalized around the time of Jesus, the various books of the Hebrew Bible took shape under a variety of authors, cultures, and time periods, influencing the formation of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam alike. In The Meaning of the Bible: What the Jewish Scriptures and Christian Old Testament Can Teach Us (HarperOne; November 2011; $ 29.99; Hardcover), leading biblical scholars Douglas Knight and Amy-Jill Levine open our eyes to this diverse history, shedding new meaning on the Bibles long-celebrated texts.
Knight and Levine provide readers with the tools to decode Biblical texts and demonstrate the nuanced ways in which the Hebrew Scriptures have shaped society, past and present. They highlight the Biblical themes with which readers continue to wrestle in the modern day: human evil and Gods response; war and peace; law and society; politics and economics; belief and practice; gender and sexuality; Israel and the Nations; practical wisdom and apocalyptic vision.
The Meaning of the Bible will fascinate observant Jews, faithful Christians, world historians, and readers of great literature. Knight and Levine illuminate one of the greatest collections of literature known to humankind, whose stories are as illuminating today as they were 2,500 years ago.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Douglas A. Knight is Drucilla Moore Buffington Professor of Hebrew Bible and Professor of Jewish Studies in the Divinity School, College of Arts and Science, Graduate Department of Religion, and Program in Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He received a B.A. from Ottawa University (Ottawa, KS), M.Div. from California Baptist Theological Seminary (Covina, CA), and Dr.theol. from Georg-August-Universit
@PaddyBoy987 I think that interpretation is disingenuous. If the banner was only for the benefit of the crew, why was it the backdrop for President Bush’s speech announcing the end of major combat operations in Iraq? I think the discomfort you’re experiencing is what is known as cognitive dissonance, so you are trying to interpret facts in a way that supports your current beliefs, rather than examining your beliefs in light of those facts. It sounds to me like you’re too smart for that.
@PaddyBoy987 your opinions about the aircraft carrier are totally valid, but i disagree about the discussion of politics. what makes nerdfighteria great is our ability to discuss differing opinions without becoming offensive and instead recognizing the validity of the other side and understanding that everyone has a reason for thinking what they think. To me, unified doesn’t mean we have to agree on everything. It means coming together and valuing our differences together.
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If sex is not biological, then gender reassignment of children would be successful; eg: David Reimer
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@imysworld That’s horrible that people treat you like that. You’d think that in the 21st century people would start to open their minds.
@vlogbrothers GWB put the mission accomplished banner on the aircraft carrier at the request of the crew… The crew’s specific mission was accomplished and they were returning home… Please leave politics out of your videos… It creates a schism (great word) in Nerdfighteria that is very uncomfortable. I think having a unified Nerdfighteria will decrease world suck.
DFTBA,
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For some stupid reason any Intersex person like me is not aloud to compete in sports, and some cannot get married or adopt children
We are going to fight to change this i do not see why i could not compete in some race just because i am Intersex, i never chose to be born like this, yes i am proud of what i am but i believe its completly unfiar how all intersex people are treated as if they are shit on a stick no one cares how it makes us all feel!
Why do we have to suffer!!!!!
I love your job, too, John.
I think I hate sports because they are so pointless. Thats great, but no one can take away the image inside my head that I got from hiking up a mountain! I find that much more rewarding than putting a ball in a goal. Thats just me. I learned that nothing is final from bleach. No one ever dies! I mea, they can get their head cut of, or get a fatal wound, and then something brings them back. sigh, even Aizen
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