Homoeroticism in the biblical world : a historical perspective /
The author surveys attitudes in the ancient Mediterranean world toward homoeroticism, that is, same-sex erotic relationships. Analyzing documents from Mesopotamia, Israel, Greece, Rome, rabbinic Judaism, and the earliest churches, he concisely introduces the relevant sources and their historical con...
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Minneapolis :
Fortress Press,
[1998]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Society, church, and homosexuality ; Explaining "homosexuality" ; Interpretation of gender ; Homosexuality, homoeroticism, homosociability
- Mesopotamia. The Epic of Gilgames̆ ; Laws and omens ; Devotees of Is̆tar : assinnu, kurgarrû, kuluʼu
- The Hebrew Bible. The Holiness Code : Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13 ; Sodom : Genesis 19:1-11 ; Gibeah : Judges 19 ; Ham and Noah : Genesis 9:20-27 ; David and Jonathan : 1 Samuel 18-20; 2 Samuel 1:26
- Classical Antiquity. Greek male homoeroticism ; Roman male homoeroticism ; Female homoeroticism ; Critiques of homoeroticism
- Judaism. Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha ; Josephus, Philo, and Pseudo-Phocylides ; Rabbinic literature
- The New Testament. Paul and the unnatural : Romans 1:26-27 ; Men who sleep--with whom? I Corinthians 6:9 and 1 Timothy 1:10 ; Jesus and homosexuality
- Homoeroticism in the biblical world and homosexuality today. Homosexuality and biblical interpretations ; The interpretation of same-sex relations then and now
- Appendix: Creation, nature, and gender identity.