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 See Plato, The Republic (trans. C.D.C. Reeve. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2004), pp. 208–215 [7.514a–521d].)| false
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 F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (trans. Walter Kaufmann; New York: Vintage, 1966), p. 229.

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 For example, D. Stronach, “The Garden as a Political Statement: Some Case Studies from the Near East in the First Millennium B.C.,” Bulletin of the Asia Institute 4 (1990), pp. 171-80; M. Novák, “The Artificial Paradise: Programme and Ideology of Royal Gardens,” in S. Parpola and R.M. Whiting (eds.), Sex and Gender in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the 47th Rencontre Assyriolgique Internationale, Helsinki, July 2-6, 2001 (Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2002), pp. 443-60; W.P. Brown and J.T. Carroll, “The Garden and the Plaza Biblical Images of the City,” Int 54 (2000), pp. 3-11; J. Delumeau and M. O’Connell, History of Paradise: The Garden of Eden in Myth and Tradition (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000).

 For example, D. Stronach, “The Garden as a Political Statement: Some Case Studies from the Near East in the First Millennium B.C.,” Bulletin of the Asia Institute 4 (1990), pp. 171-80; M. Novák, “The Artificial Paradise: Programme and Ideology of Royal Gardens,” in S. Parpola and R.M. Whiting (eds.), Sex and Gender in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the 47th Rencontre Assyriolgique Internationale, Helsinki, July 2-6, 2001 (Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2002), pp. 443-60; W.P. Brown and J.T. Carroll, “The Garden and the Plaza Biblical Images of the City,” Int 54 (2000), pp. 3-11; J. Delumeau and M. O’Connell, History of Paradise: The Garden of Eden in Myth and Tradition (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000).)| false
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 F. Uhlenbruch, The Nowhere Bible: Utopia, Dystopia, Science Fiction (Boston: de Gruyter, 2015); Y.C. Klangwisan, Jouissance: A Cixousian Encounter with the Song of Songs (BMW, 56; Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2015); M. Foucault, “Of Other Spaces,” Diacritics 1 (1986), pp. 22-27.

 F. Uhlenbruch, The Nowhere Bible: Utopia, Dystopia, Science Fiction (Boston: de Gruyter, 2015); Y.C. Klangwisan, Jouissance: A Cixousian Encounter with the Song of Songs (BMW, 56; Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2015); M. Foucault, “Of Other Spaces,” Diacritics 1 (1986), pp. 22-27.)| false
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 R. Polhemus, Lot’s Daughters: Sex, Redemption, and Women’s Quest for Authority (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005), p. 9. We will return to the question of children and futurity with a turn to L. Edelman’s No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Series Q; Durham: Duke University Press, 2004) subsequently in this paper, though his treatment is quite different from that offered by Polhemus.

 R. Polhemus, Lot’s Daughters: Sex, Redemption, and Women’s Quest for Authority (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005), p. 9. We will return to the question of children and futurity with a turn to L. Edelman’s No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Series Q; Durham: Duke University Press, 2004) subsequently in this paper, though his treatment is quite different from that offered by Polhemus.)| false
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 See L. Irigaray, Speculum of the Other Woman (trans. Gillian C. Gill; Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985), pp. 293-94.

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 Sherwood, “And Sarah Died,” p. 269. There is a possible linguistic connection that highlights this parallel. The ram which takes Isaac’s place upon the sacrificial altar is described as being “caught (אחז) in the thicket by its horns” (Gen. 22:13). The cave and land that Abraham purchases for Sarah in Genesis 23 are described as a “burial property/possession (אחזה)” (23:4, 9, 20).

 Sherwood, “And Sarah Died,” p. 269. There is a possible linguistic connection that highlights this parallel. The ram which takes Isaac’s place upon the sacrificial altar is described as being “caught (אחז) in the thicket by its horns” (Gen. 22:13). The cave and land that Abraham purchases for Sarah in Genesis 23 are described as a “burial property/possession (אחזה)” (23:4, 9, 20).)| false
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 Sherwood, “And Sarah Died,” p. 268.

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 See J. Kristeva, Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (trans. L.S. Roudiez; New York: Columbia University Press, 1982), p. 71. The other type of polluting element is menstrual blood, which stands for the danger issuing from within the identity. Both types of defilement, however, stem from the maternal and/or the feminine.

 See J. Kristeva, Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (trans. L.S. Roudiez; New York: Columbia University Press, 1982), p. 71. The other type of polluting element is menstrual blood, which stands for the danger issuing from within the identity. Both types of defilement, however, stem from the maternal and/or the feminine.)| false
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 See Irigaray, Speculum of the Other Woman, pp. 243-364.

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 L. Bersani, “Is the Rectum a Grave?” October 43 (1987), pp. 197-222 (211).

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 L. Irigaray, This Sex Which Is Not One, (trans. C. Porter and C. Burke; New York: Cornell University Press, 1985), p. 30.

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 D.M. Gunn, The Fate of King Saul: An Interpretation of a Biblical Story (JSOTSup; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1980), p. 94.

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 T.W. Jennings, Jacob’s Wound: Homoerotic Narrative in the Literature of Ancient Israel (New York: Continuum, 2005), p. 24; R. Boer, Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door: The Bible and Popular Culture (New York: Routledge, 1999), pp. 22, 30.

 T.W. Jennings, Jacob’s Wound: Homoerotic Narrative in the Literature of Ancient Israel (New York: Continuum, 2005), p. 24; R. Boer, Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door: The Bible and Popular Culture (New York: Routledge, 1999), pp. 22, 30.)| false
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 Jennings, Jacob’s Wound, p. 22.

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 Gunn, The Fate of King Saul, p. 93.

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 Jennings, Jacob’s Wound, pp. 93-94.

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 Edelman, No Future, p. 21.

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 Edelman, No Future, p. 3.

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 Edelman, No Future, pp. 102-106.

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 I. Pardes, The Biography of Ancient Israel (Berkeley: University of Californa Press, 2000), pp. 62-64, 107-108.

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 Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, p. 229.

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