Yes, thank you, your case for the transgendered Jesus is fascinating, but I would worry about Mary's chat with Jesus at the Cana wedding. Though the specific terms are puzzling I have thought the general motivation is Mary's wish that her son be married.
About male rapes, they are frequently noted the OT and as often smothered by Christian readers. I'd detailed them in the "Jesus was Raped" article, but briefly:
- Lot is raped by his daughters (Gen 19:33-34). The logic here seems to be that the area men are suspected of being Nephilim as Lot is the only male the daughters can certify as fully human.
- In Genesis 21:9, Ishmael's "mockery" of Isaac is regularly if anxiously noted by scholars to have sexual suggestion. Ishmael, after all, is immediately sent away.
- Ehud volunteers for apparent forced sex in Judges 3, and then turns the tables with a phallic knife plunged into Eglon's body, as apparently results in a cascade of shit.
- Samson seems to be tied up in his final scenes and forcibly raped in an effort to obtain his children (assumed to be superheroes like him no doubt).
I'll mention a few sources for this suggestion.
Danna Nolan Fewell writes:
"The infinitive of the Hebrew verb, ‘inna, in verses 5, 6, and 19 is key, although most interpreters translate it as “to afflict,” “to weaken,” “to make helpless,” “to humble,” or “to subdue.” The one term that commentators do not use is “to rape,” perhaps because they believe it is impossible for a woman to rape a man or because they assert that this verb does not signify sexual violence. Yet the exegetical possibility exists. It is a rhetorical game, a connotative possibility, in which the text plays on the verb’s ambiguous meaning, ranging from “humiliate” to “force sexually.” The possibility of indirect sexual references is also present in 16:25 and 16:27, where Samson is forced to “play” or “perform” for the Philistines while imprisoned.
When Samson is brought before the Philistines, that is, he is asked to ‘play’ for them. This verb, as in Genesis 26:8, when Isaac is touching his wife, can include a sexual event.
(Women's Bible Commentary, Third Edition)
Then, as in v.21, Samson's "grinding" is coded as sexual. Ela Lazarewitz-Wrzykowska writes: “The sexual innuendo of the verb takes his ‘womanization’ one step further; in doing the woman’s work, he is not only ‘like a woman’, but like a sexually subdued woman."
(quoted in Amy Kalmanofsky, Gender-Play in the Hebrew Bible)
- Ruth’s approach to Boaz is an attempted rape. He seems to awaken in surprise or fear.
- King Saul fears being raped by the Philistines in 1 Samuel 31:4 (cf. 1 Chr 10:4), where it’s translated “toyed with.” That Saul impales himself on his own sword is a self-penetration to prevent rape by others.
So these are in the backdrop to the messianic story. A continuous epic of male rape with transgendering suggestion.
