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Transgender, intersex, and biblical Interpretation / by Teresa J. Hornsby and Deryn Guest.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks BT708 .H676 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hornsby, Teresa J., 1959- author.
- Guest, Deryn, author.
- Series:
- Semeia studies ; no. 83.
- Semeia studies ; number 83
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Trans people--Biblical teaching.
- Trans people.
- Gender--Biblical teaching.
- Gender.
- Transgender people.
- Biblical teaching.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 123 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Atlanta : SBL Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- A call for "trans literacy" within biblical scholarship In this volume Hornsby and Guest introduce readers to terms for the various identities of trans people and how the Bible can be an affirmation of those deemed sexually other by communities. This book offers readings of well known (e.g., Gen 1; Revelation) and not so well known (2 Sam 6; Jer 38) narratives to illustrate that the Bible has been translated and interpreted with a bias that makes heterosexuality and a two sex, two gender system natural, and thus divinely ordained. The authors present examples that show gender was never a binary, and in the Bible gender and sex are always dynamic categories that do, and must, transition. Features: Definitions of key terms, including transsexual, transgender, cissexism, heterosexism, intersex, eunuch Critique of how biblical texts are used in Christian positional statements on transsexuality Statistics concerning rates of violence against trans persons.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the body as decoy / Teresa J. Hornsby
- Gender dualism, or the big lie / Teresa J. Hornsby
- Troubling the waters: transgender, and reading Genesis backwards / Deryn Guest
- Modeling the transgender gaze: performances of masculinities in 2 Kings 9-10 / Deryn Guest
- The dance of gender: David, Jesus, and Paul / Teresa J. Hornsby
- Slender man and the new horrors of the apocalypse / Teresa J. Hornsby.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Hornsby, Teresa J., 1959- author. Transgender, intersex and biblical Interpretation.
- ISBN:
- 9781628371352
- 1628371358
- 9780884141563
- 088414156X
- OCLC:
- 939428500
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