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"The essays in Bible Trouble all engage queer theories for purposes of biblical interpretation, a rare effort to date within biblical scholarship. The title phrase 'Bible Trouble' plays on Judith Butler's 'Gender Trouble', gesturing toward a primary text for contemporary queer theory. The essays consider, among others, the Lazarus story, the Ethiopian eunuch, 'gender trouble' in Judges 4 and 5, the Song of Songs, and an unorthodox coupling of the books of Samuel and the film Paris Is Burning. This volume 'troubles' not only the boundaries between biblical scholarship and queer theory but also the boundaries between different frameworks currently used in the analysis of biblical literature, including sexuality, gender, race, class, history, and literature. The contributors are Ellen T. Armour, Michael Joseph Brown, Sean D. Burke, Heidi Epstein, Deryn Guest, Jione Havea, Teresa J. Hornsby, Lynn R. Huber, S. Tamar Kamionkowski, Joseph A. Marchal, Jeremy Punt, Erin Runions, Ken Stone, Gillian Townsley, Jay Twomey, and Manuel Villalobos"--Back cover Already queer : a preface / Teresa J. Hornsby and Ken Stone -- Queer Bibles, queer scriptures? : an introductory response / Ellen T. Armour -- From gender reversal to genderfuck : reading Jael through a lesbian lens / Deryn Guest -- From disgust to humor : Rahab's queer affect / Erin Runions -- Queer reading between Bible and film : Paris is burning and the "legendary houses" of David and Saul / Ken Stone -- Penderecki's iron maiden : intimacy and other anomalies in the Canticum canticorum Salomonis / Heidi Epstein -- Queer theory and historical-critical exegesis : queering biblicists : a reponse / S. Tamar Kamionkowski -- Capitalism, masochism, and biblical interpretation / Teresa J. Hornsby -- Lazarus troubles / Jione Havea -- Queering early Christian discourse : the Ethiopian eunuch / Sean D. Burke -- Bodies del otro lado finding life and hope in the borderland : Gloria Anzaldúa, the Ethiopian eunuch of Acts 8:26-40, y Yo / Manuel Villalobos -- The Corinthian women prophets and trans activism : rethinking canonical gender claims / Joseph A. Marchal -- The straight mind in Corinth : problematizing categories and ideologies of gender in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 / Gillian Townsley -- The pastor and his fops : gender indeterminacy in the pastor and his readers / Jay Twomey -- Gazing at the whore : reading Revelation queerly / Lynn R. Huber -- Queer theology, postcolonial theory, and biblical interpretation : a preliminary exploration of some intersections / Jeremy Punt -- What happens when closets open up? : a response / Michael Joseph Brown.
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