#mis-gendering in the hb thats the tldr here

[eesirachs]

negated pronouns in the former prophets, or, the hysteries—sometimes, mostly in moments of formalism heightened unto violence, the hebrew narrative refuses proper pronoun usage. the prophet elijah summons and anoints elisha, hurling his flesh into a nearness of heaven that hurts and ruins, and he uses the feminine singular לָ��ךְ. elijah repeats this nonpronouning before his assumption, naming elisha the feminine מֵ��ִמָּ֑ךְ as a mode of forgetting or farewelling. evinced here is the earlier passage of yephthah who, speech-acting and vowing to sacrifice his daughter, names her with the masculine singular מִמֶּ֛נּוּ. new registers are attached to these sacrifices, these hysterical, excessive, violated things, so unruly and queer that the narrative forgets its own syntax