Masculinities and Third Gender: The Origins and Nature of an Institutionalized Gender Otherness in the Ancient Near East. (AOAT 435) Theologie Oswald Loretz (Hrg

Oswald Loretz (Hrg

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Masculinities and Third Gender: The Origins and Nature of an Institutionalized Gender Otherness in the Ancient Near East. (AOAT 435) Theologie Oswald Loretz (HrgIlan Peled ISBN: 978 386835 195 8 Pub: 2016 xxiv + 333 pp. The aim of this book is to track a distinct human phenomenon in the history of the ancient Near East: persons who were born males, but under various social and historical circumstances their masculine identity was considered to be ambiguous. On the basis of this, these persons can be classified as belonging to a third gender They bore specific titles, and were engaged in cult or palace