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The Bible, gender, and sexuality : critical readings
Title
The Bible, gender, and sexuality : critical readings / edited by Rhiannon Graybill and Lynn R. Huber.
ISBN
9780567677556
0567677559
9780567677549
9780567677563
Publication
London, UK ; New York, NY : T&T Clark, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021.
Copyright Notice Date
©2021
Physical Description
viii, 383 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Summary
"This volume collects the most important and cutting-edge readings related to gender, sex, sexuality and the Bible. Engaging the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and surrounding texts and worlds, the selected readings reflect a wide-range of perspectives and approaches. The volume is divided into four parts each of which is introduced by the volume editors in order to situate the readings in their broader scholarly contexts. Finally, an annotated list of further readings points researchers towards further engagements with these key themes"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Bible, gender, and sexuality London ; New York : T&T Clark, 2020
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 11, 2021
Series
Critical readings in Biblical studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Rhiannon Graybill and Lynn R. Huber
Reading the silence of women in Genesis 34 / Julie Kelso
"Every green tree and the streets of Jerusalem" : counter constructions of gendered sacred space in the book of Jeremiah / Steed Vernyl Davidson
Gender and archaeology in Israelite religion / Beth Alpert Nakhai
Masculinity and disability in the Bible / Thomas Hentrich
Contextualizing masculinity in the books of Acts : Peter and Paul as test cases / Brittany E. Wilson
Discharging responsibility : Matthean Jesus, biblical law, and hemorrhaging woman / Amy-Jill Levine
A feminist analysis of the veiling passage (1 Corinthians 11:2-16) : who really cares that Paul was not a gender egalitarian after all? / Shelly Matthews
Virginity as purity in the Protevangelium of James / Mary F. Foskett
Food, sex, and the Garden of Eden : or, what is the Bible "about?" / Ken Stone
"That's why they didn't call the book Hadassah!" : the interse(ct)/(x)ionality of race/ethnicity, gender, and sexuality in the book of Esther / Randall C. Bailey
Ten things every feminist should know about the Song of Songs / J. Cheryl Exum
Un-straightening Boaz in Ruth scholarship / Brett Krutzsch
Sexy Stoics and the rereading of Romans 1:18-2:16 / Diana Swancutt
The usefulness of an Onesimus : the sexual use of slaves and Paul's Letter to Philemon / Joseph A. Marchal
Cruising as methodology : homoeroticism and the Scriptures / Timothy R. Koch
Disney's Pocahontas and Joshua's Rahab in postcolonial perspective / Lori L. Rowlett
Violent superwomen : super heroes or super villains? Judith, Wonder Woman, and Lynndie England / Emma England
The skin of Miriam became as white as snow : the Bible, Western feminism, and colour politics / Mukti Barton
Gospel hauntings : the postcolonial demons of New Testament criticism / Laura E. Donaldson
Outrageous, audacious, courageous, willful : reading the enslaved girl of Acts 12 / Margaret Aymer
Gazing at the whore : reading Revelation queerly / Lynn R. Huber
No child left behind : reading Jephthah's Daughter with The Babylon complex / Rhiannon Graybill.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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