Susannah Cornwall Quotes
One Quote by: Susannah Cornwall of Manchester University's Lincoln Theological Institute But in actual fact, it is not possible to assert with any degree of certainty that Jesus was
male as we now define maleness. There is no way of knowing for sure that Jesus did not
have one of the intersex conditions which would give him a body which appeared externally
to be unremarkably male, but which might nonetheless have had some “hidden” female
physical features. He might have had ovarian as well as testicular tissue in his body. He
might, in common with many people who are unaware of the fact, have had a mixture of XX
and XY cells. Indeed, as several scholars have pointed out with their tongues both in and out
of their cheeks, if the doctrine of the Virgin Birth is taken as scientific fact, then Jesus
certainly had no male human element to introduce a Y chromosome into his DNA, and all his
genetic material would have been identical with that of his mother (that is, female) (see e.g.
Mollenkott 2002, 2007: 115-7). There is simply no way of telling at this juncture whether
Jesus was an unremarkably male human being, or someone with an intersex condition who
had a male morphology as far as the eye could see but may or may not also have had XX
chromosomes or some female internal anatomy. The fact that, as far as we know, Jesus
never married, fathered children or engaged in sexual intercourse, of course, makes his
“undisputable” maleness even less certain.
Source here on the Internet. Dated: 2012.
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