According to the Hebrew Scriptures, homosexually is evil and therefore should be utterly rejected. Homosexuality is not only irregular and against laws of nature but also against the initial intention of the creator which was procreation (Greenberg, 42). After God created Adam and Eve in the first chapter of Genesis, he commanded them to be fruitful and multiply (Greenberg, 49). When God had created everything else, he saw perfection but at last, he a flaw in his creation which was Adam’s loneliness. He, therefore, decided that Adam needed a helper to be fully satisfied. On discovering eve, Adam claimed that he had found a perfect mate (Greenberg, 51). Several sages assert that the interpretation of “this time” and not any other time could mean that Adam had had sex with all animals but was still not satisfied. The implication here is that in that sense, Adam was not only looking for a plutonic helper but also a sexual companion. The fact that God did not create a woman for both purposes and not a man implies that heterosexuality is the foundation of God’s creation. God also forbids Israelites from engaging in Egyptian practices like men marrying other men, women marrying each other and women marrying two men (Greenberg, 89). Homosexuality is therefore ungodly and unnatural and, therefore, discouraged by Hebrew Scriptures.

Gender fluidity describes a dynamic mix of female and male genders. A gender fluid individual experiences a blend of the two genders. Sometimes they feel masculine while other times they feel feminine. In the Lefkovitz readings, the person who plays a mother at some point, and a protector and leader at another brings out an example of gender fluidity. At first, she takes care of Moses after Pharaoh’s daughter rescues him, a role played by females (Lefkovitz, 101). When Miriam engages god in a power contest and dies leprous, the people including Moses are afraid to proceed without her, the fear that is confirmed by Moses’ anger (Lefkovitz, 105). She is also depicted as a protector by her protection of her brother at the Nile. Men usually played the roles of protector and a leader. By performing all those roles, Miriam is represented as gender queer.

Works Cited

Greenberg, Steven. Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition. University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ucb/detail.action?docID=3444706.web. 02 February 2019

Lefkovitz,  Lori, H. In Scripture: the first stories of Jewish sexual identities. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010. Print.

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