Appalling Bodies: Queer Figures Before and After Paul's Letters - Couverture rigide

Marchal, Joseph A.

 
9780190060312: Appalling Bodies: Queer Figures Before and After Paul's Letters
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ISBN 10 : 019006031X ISBN 13 : 9780190060312
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2020

Synopsis

The letters of Paul are among the most commonly cited biblical texts in ongoing cultural and religious disputes about gender, sexuality, and embodiment. Appalling Bodies reframes these uses of the letters by reaching past Paul toward other, far more fascinating figures that appear before, after, and within the letters. The letters repeat ancient stereotypes about women, eunuchs, slaves, and barbarians--in their Roman imperial setting, each of these overlapping groups were cast as debased, dangerous, and complicated.

Joseph Marchal presents new ways for us to think about these dangers and complications with the help of queer theory. Appalling Bodies juxtaposes these ancient figures against recent figures of gender and sexual variation, in order to defamiliarize and reorient what can be known about both. The connections between the marginalization and stigmatization of these figures troubles the history, ethics, and politics of biblical interpretation. Ultimately, Marchal assembles and reintroduces us to Appalling Bodies from then and now, and the study of Paul's letters may never be the same.

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À propos de l?auteur

Joseph A. Marchal is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and affiliate faculty in Women's and Gender Studies at Ball State University. Marchal is the author and editor of several works, most recently Philippians: Historical Problems, Hierarchical Visions, Hysterical Anxieties (2017), Sexual Disorientations: Queer Temporalities, Affects, Theologies (with Kent L. Brintnall and Stephen D. Moore; 2018), and Bodies on the Verge: Queering Pauline Epistles (2019).

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
019006031X
ISBN 13 
9780190060312
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
324
Coordonnées du fabricant
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9780197668962: Appalling Bodies: Queer Figures Before and After Paul's Letters

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ISBN 10 :  0197668968 ISBN 13 :  9780197668962
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2022
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