Does The Talmud Teach That Abraham And Sarah Were Non-Binary?

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Does The Talmud Teach That Abraham And Sarah Were Non-Binary?

Michael Brown

On April 25, Daniel Bogard, a Reform (read: very liberal) rabbi, posted a 9-part viral thread on Twitter, beginning with these words: “I keep hearing from GOP lawmakers that they ‘just want to return to a Judeo-Christian idea of men being men and women being women.’ So let’s talk about that ‘Judeo’ part for a moment (because it’s a lot queerer and less binary than y’all seem to think).”

Bogard’s thread goes on to make several claims about the teachings of rabbinic literature and what they supposedly have to say about queerness and gender identity in the Bible. Here are some of the claims he makes:: 

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