Synopses & Reviews
Essays exploring and explaining how 'queer' reading makes a difference to biblical exegesis. As with feminism, theoretical questions arise such as whether such readings are characterized by certain questions or can only legitimately be done by gay or lesbian readers. The contributors are drawn from a range of backgrounds and a variety of interests--Jewish, Christian, agnostic, male, female, heterosexual, gay and lesbian--and mostly concentrate on individual passages and books. But the volume also contains some theoretical reflections, and it ends with three +critical responses' from scholars with interdisciplinary interests on the place of queer read-ing of the Bible in broader contexts. A book for anyone interested in contemporary issues of bible interpretation or in queer theory generally.
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-244) and indexes.
Table of Contents
Queer commentary and biblical interpretation : an introduction /Ken Stone --YHWH as Erastes /Theodore W. Jennings, Jr. --Yahweh as top : a lost targum /Roland Boer --Violent femmes and S/M : queering Samson and Delilah /Lori Rowlett --Lovers and raisin cakes : food, sex and divine insecurity in Hosea /Ken Stone --Gift of voice, the gift of tears : a queer reading of Lamentations in the context of AIDS /Mona West --Remembering Pelotit : a queer midrash on calling down fire /Michael Carden --Cruising as methodology : homoeroticism and the scriptures /Timothy R. Koch --(Cor)Responding : a letter to the editor /Tat-Siong Benny Lew --Gay male ethicist's response to Queer readings of the Bible /Daniel T. Spencer --Yahwist desires : imagining divinity queerly /Laurel C. Schneider.