Take back the Word : a queer reading of the Bible /
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,...
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Cleveland, Ohio :
Pilgrim Press,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- 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 / Elizabeth 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 compulsory heterosexuality a prerequisite for Christianity? / Thomas Bohache.