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Bible trouble : queer reading at the boundaries of biblical scholarship / edited by Teresa J. Hornsby and Ken Stone.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Semeia studies ; no. 67.
- Society of Biblical Literature : Semeia studies ; no. 67
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc--History--21st century.
- Bible.
- Bible--Gay interpretations.
- Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.--History--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (373 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The essays in Bible Trouble all engage queer theories for purposes of biblical interpretation, a rare effort to date within biblical scholarship.The title phrase "Bible Trouble" plays on Judith Butler's Gender Trouble , gesturing toward a primary text for contemporary queer theory.
- Contents:
- Already queer : a preface / Teresa J. Hornsby and Ken Stone
- Queer Bibles, queer scriptures? : an introductory response / Ellen T. Armour
- From gender reversal to genderfuck : reading Jael through a lesbian lens / Deryn Guest
- From disgust to humor : Rahab's queer affect / Erin Runions
- Queer reading between Bible and film : Paris is burning and the "legendary houses" of David and Saul / Ken Stone
- Penderecki's iron maiden : intimacy and other anomalies in the Canticum canticorum Salomonis / Heidi Epstein
- Queer theory and historical-critical exegesis : queering biblicists : a reponse / S. Tamar Kamionkowski
- Capitalism, masochism, and biblical interpretation / Teresa J. Hornsby
- Lazarus troubles / Jione Havea
- Queering early Christian discourse : the Ethiopian eunuch / Sean D. Burke
- Bodies del otro lado finding life and hope in the borderland : Gloria Anzaldúa, the Ethiopian eunuch of Acts 8:26-40, y Yo / Manuel Villalobos
- The Corinthian women prophets and trans activism : rethinking canonical gender claims / Joseph A. Marchal
- The straight mind in Corinth : problematizing categories and ideologies of gender in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 / Gillian Townsley
- The pastor and his fops : gender indeterminacy in the pastor and his readers / Jay Twomey
- Gazing at the whore : reading Revelation queerly / Lynn R. Huber
- Queer theology, postcolonial theory, and biblical interpretation : a preliminary exploration of some intersections / Jeremy Punt
- What happens when closets open up? : a response / Michael Joseph Brown.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-58983-553-0
- OCLC:
- 922967959
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