Jewish rabbinical tradition says God has both masculine and feminine attributes, that he is neither male nor female, while being both at the same time.

Apparently, textual analysis in Hebrew supports this view, but Jewish theologians don’t tend to be textual literalists, a phenomenon native to neither Judaism nor Christianity.

Rabbis point out that ancient Hebrew was a grammatically gendered language and that the masculine personal pronoun, much as in English, was often used as a default form when gender was not specified.

They point out many masculine attributes of God, as in his role of father or shepherd, but observe that feminine roles are common also.