Arnon Grunberg

Planet

Trope

A friend alerted me to this article in NYT by (rabbi) Mark Sameth:

'The Israelites took the transgender trope from their surrounding cultures and wove it into their own sacred scripture. The four-Hebrew-letter name of God, which scholars refer to as the Tetragrammaton, YHWH, was probably not pronounced “Jehovah” or “Yahweh,” as some have guessed. The Israelite priests would have read the letters in reverse as Hu/Hi — in other words, the hidden name of God was Hebrew for “He/She.” Counter to everything we grew up believing, the God of Israel — the God of the three monotheistic, Abrahamic religions to which fully half the people on the planet today belong — was understood by its earliest worshipers to be a dual-gendered deity.'

Read the article here.

This is a big step for God, to come out of the closet as dual-gendered Deity, and a big step for humanity. Now I'm more than willing to forgive Him His jealousy. He is just a tad too human.

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