Boer, Roland2023-02-092023-02-092016-10-132010-04-021355-835810.1558/tse.v16i1.95http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/4269715AbstractThe key issue for this paper is the role of writing in both the production of and instabilities in prophetic masculinity. I draw upon three sources: the work of Lévi-Strauss concerning the "writing experiment," Christina Pettersen's exploration of the role of writing in constructing the ruling class in colonial Greenland, and some of my older work concerning the auto-referentiality of references to writing and scribal activity in the Hebrew Bible. Armed with these theoretical strings, the paper has two phases—what may be called "organizing the sausage-fest" and "too many dicks at the writing desk." The first concerns the production of masculinity, the second its problems.Magazine/Journaleng© 2010 Taylor & Francisancient Near EastHebrew BiblemasculinitysexualitytheologyArticle