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Take Back the Word - A Queer Reading of the Bible

By Robert E Goss

Book information

Publisher
Pilgrim Press
Year
2000
ISBN
9780829813975, 0829813977
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5045964 bytes)
Pages
256\256
Time added
2022-01-08 20:15:06

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Perhaps the most revolutionary contribution of this volume is in its presentation of new and resistant practices of reading the Bible that challenge some of the prevailing "authorized" patterns of reading that allow the Bible to "clobber" oppressed people...If lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender, and seeking people are to take back this word for themselves, they must take it back in a new way Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Foreword: What Word Shall We Take Back? Contributors Introduction Part 1: Queer Strategies for Reading 1. Reading the Bible from Low and Outside: Lesbitransgay People as God's Tricksters - Virginia Ramey Mollenkott 2. Camping around the Canon: Humor as a Hermeneutical Tool in Queer Readings of Biblical Texts - Elizebeth Stuart 3. Love Your Mother: A Lesbian Womanist Reading of Scripture - Irene S. Travis 4. Eating the Crumbs That Fall from the Table: Trusting the Abundance of God - Justin Tanis Part 2: Taking Back the Hebrew Scriptures 5. The Garden of Eden and the Heterosexual Contract - Ken Stone 6. Outsiders, Aliens,and Boundary Crossers: A Queer Reading of the Hebrew Exodus - Mona West 7. When and Where I Enter, Then the Whole Race Enters with Me: Que(e)rying Exodus - Irene Monroe 8. The Book of Ruth: On Boundaries, Love, and Truth - Celena M. Duncan 9. Throwing a Party: Patriarchy, Gender, and the Death of Jezebel - Victoria S. Kolakowski 10. Nehemiah as a Queer Model for Servant Leadership - Michael S. Piazza 11. A Modern Psalm in the Midst of Breast Cancer - Irene S. Travis 12. A Love as Fierce as Death: Reclaiming the Song of Songs for Queer Lovers - Christopher King 13. Insider Out: Unmasking the Abusing God - Dawn Robinson Rose 14. Ezekiel Understands AIDS: AIDS Understands Ezekiel, or Reading the Bible with HIV - Jim Mitulski 15. A Queer Reading of the Book of Jonah - Sharon Bezner 16. Do Justice, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly: Reflections on Micah and Gay Ethics - Rebecca T. Alpert Part 3: Taking Back the Christian Scriptures 17. Matthew and Mary of Magdala: Good News for Sex Workers - Thomas Hanks 18. Coming Out, Lazarus's and Ours: Queer Reflections of a Psychospiritual, Political Journey - Benjamin Perkins 19. The Beloved Disciple: A Queer Bereavement Narrative in a Time of AIDS - Robert E. Goss 20. "And Then He Kissed Me": An Easter Love Story - James Martin 21. "To Cut or Not to Cut": Is Compu lsory Heterosexuality a Prerequisite for Christianity? - Thomas Bohache

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