Take Back the Word : A Queer Reading of the Bible,9780829813975

Take Back the Word : A Queer Reading of the Bible

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ISBN13: 9780829813975
ISBN10: 0829813977
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-09-01
Publisher(s): Lightning Source Inc
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Summary

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

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Mary Ann Tolbert
Contributors xiii
Introduction 3(10)
Part 1 QUEER STRATEGIES FOR READING
Reading the Bible from Low and Outside: Lesbitransgay People as God's Tricksters
13(10)
Virginia Ramey Mollenkott
Camping around the Canon: Humor as a Hermeneutical Tool in Queer Readings of Biblical Texts
23(12)
Elizabeth Stuart
Love Your Mother: A Lesbian Womanist Reading of Scripture
35(8)
Irene S. Travis
Eating the Crumbs That Fall from the Table: Trusting the Abundance of God
43(14)
Justin Tanis
Part 2 TAKING BACK THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES
The Garden of Eden and the Heterosexual Contract
57(14)
Ken Stone
Outsiders, Aliens, and Boundary Crossers: A Queer Reading of the Hebrew Exodus
71(11)
Mona West
When and Where I Enter, Then the Whole Race Enters with Me: Que(e)rying Exodus
82(10)
Irene Monroe
The Book of Ruth: On Boundaries, Love, and Truth
92(11)
Celena M. Duncan
Throwing a Party: Patriarchy, Gender, and the Death of Jezebel
103(12)
Victoria S. Kolakowski
Nehemiah as a Queer Model for Servant Leadership
115(9)
Michael S. Piazza
A Modern Psalm in the Midst of Breast Cancer
124(2)
Irene S. Travis
A Love as Fierce as Death: Reclaiming the Song of Songs for Queer Lovers
126(17)
Christopher King
Insider Out: Unmasking the Abusing God
143(10)
Dawn Robinson Rose
Ezekiel Understands AIDS: AIDS Understands Ezekiel, or Reading the Bible with HIV
153(8)
Jim Mitulski
A Queer Reading of the Book of Jonah
161(9)
Sharon Bezner
Do Justice, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly: Reflections on Micah and Gay Ethics
170(15)
Rebecca T. Alpert
Part 3 TAKING BACK THE CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES
Matthew and Mary of Magdala: Good News for Sex Workers
185(11)
Thomas Hanks
Coming Out, Lazarus's and Ours: Queer Reflections of a Psychospiritual, Political Journey
196(10)
Benjamin Perkins
The Beloved Disciple: A Queer Bereavement Narrative in a Time of AIDS
206(13)
Robert E. Goss
``And Then He Kissed Me'': An Easter Love Story
219(8)
James Martin
``To Cut or Not to Cut'': Is Compulsory Heterosexuality a Prerequisite for Christianity?
227
Thomas Bohache

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