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01-2008

Christina Leisering Susanna „im Garten“ Eine feministisch-intertextuelle Lektüre der Susannaerzählung

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Abstract:

The garden is a central motif in the Old Testament story of Susanna (Daniel 13). It reveals a lot about the gender issues of the story and provides insight into the different constructions of gender in the two versions of the text: the older Septuagint (= LXX) and the younger Theodotion (= Th) version. The following article offers an intertextual reading of the two versions of the story. With regard to the garden motif as a central metaphor of the text, Genesis 2-3 and the Song of Songs are focused on as important reference texts. The intertextual readings show that the older LXX version can be read as an objection against misogynist arguments of the Hellenistic-Roman period. But while the older LXX version can be understood as a harsh critique of patriarchal values, the Th version emphasizes traditional role images of women and tames the subversive tendency that the LXX version presented. In the light of these results, the long ignored LXX version should be brought back into the centre of discussion.

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Dr. Christina Leisering, Jg. 1978,

hat Englisch und Kath. Theologie an den Universitäten Bonn und Edinburgh studiert. Von 2004-2007 war sie Promotionsstipendiatin des Würzburger Graduiertenkollegs „Wahrnehmung der Geschlechterdifferenz in religiösen Symbolsystemen“ und hat an der Universität Graz zur Susannaerzählung promoviert. Von 2001-2008 war sie Mitherausgeberin der „Schlangenbrut. Zeitschrift für feministisch und religiös interessierte Frauen“.

©Christina Leisering, 2008, lectio@theol.unibe.ch, ISSN 1661-3317

 
 
 
 

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