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Queer Theory and the Prophetic Marriage Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible book cover

1st Edition

Queer Theory and the Prophetic Marriage Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible

By Stuart Macwilliam Copyright 2012
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

263 Pages
by Routledge
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The Hebrew Bible offers a metaphor of marriage that portrays men and women as complementary, each with their distinct and 'natural' roles. Queer Theory and the Prophetic Marriage Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible draws on contemporary scholarship to critique this hetero-normativity. The book examines the methodological issues involved in the application of queer theory to biblical texts and draws on... Read more
Introduction Section I Methodological Foundations Chapter 1: Queer Theory Chapter 2: Feminist and Queer Biblical Encounters Section II Queer and Metaphor Chapter 3 A Queer Theory of Metaphor Chapter 4: Are the Israelites Male? Chapter 5: Queering Jeremiah Chapter 6: Queering Hosea Chapter 7: Queering Ezekiel, Part 1 Entr'Acte: An Orgy of the Ego: Reflections on the Methodology of Section III Section III Queer and Camp Chapter 8: The Methodological Possibility of Camp Chapter 9: Queering Ezekiel, Part 2 Chapter 10: Conclusions

Biography

Stuart Macwilliam is a lecturer in the Department of Theology at the University of Exeter. He teaches Biblical Hebrew and New Testament Greek, and continues to develop his research interest in queer theory and the Hebrew Bible, working at present on such diverse topics as male beauty, Queen Athaliah and eunuchs.

'The volume is tightly argued and well reasoned and the book is penned with humour...the book could be described - methodologically, ideologically, and stylistically - as roguish. And quite delightfully so.' --The Bible and Critical Theory

'Stuart Macwilliam writes with charm and a high degree of epistemological and methodological awareness.' --Review of Biblical Literature

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