by Gillian Townsley
SBL Press, 2017
Cloth: 978-0-88414-176-1 | eISBN: 978-0-88414-175-4 | Paper: 978-1-62837-147-5
Library of Congress Classification BS2545.H63T68 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 227.20608664

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

A new reading that troubles and transgresses the normal with regard to biblical studies and our understandings of gender and sexuality



Despite its lack of both historical and exegetical clarity, 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 has often been fundamental to understandings of gender and sexuality in many Christian traditions. In particular, a hierarchical model of gender and a heterosexual model of sexuality tend to dominate and are presented as “natural” and “God-ordained.” With the materialist lesbian theory of Monique Wittig providing the theoretical basis for discussion, this book intersects various biblical, theological, and queer lines of inquiry across 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 in order to reveal and challenge these models of gender and sexuality that lie behind both the text itself and its various interpretations.


Features



  • Reveals the complex relationship between effeminacy, masculinity and sexual relations in the first century Greco-Roman environment of the New Testament

  • Explores the ideologies of sexuality that underlie much of the debate within evangelical circles

  • Examines Karl Barth’s theology on the binary pairing of “man and woman” as asymmetrically related to each other and to God through the notion of the imago dei, revealing and challenging the ways in which this reflects androcentric and patriarchal ideologies


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