Ken Stone
Biographic Data
| ID | 5130815 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ken Stone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ken |
| FAMILY NAME | Stone |
| SIGNATURE | STONE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chicago Theological Seminary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Marriage
Biblical Studies, Queer Affect, and the Politics of Respectability
This essay uses autobiographical, queer, and affective criticism to consider the implications of respectability politics for openly gay white men in biblical studies. Several anecdotes are narrated as a way of engaging the role of respectability politics in contemporary LGBTQ cultures, in queer biblical scholarship, in theological education, and in the affective life of a gay biblical scholar and teacher. A theoretical conclusion engages Michel F…
Saul M. Olyan, Animal Rights and the Hebrew Bible
Saul M. Olyan, Animal Rights and the Hebrew Bible (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), 156 pp., $83.00 (cloth), ISBN: 0197609385
Reading Elisha’s She-Bears
Readers wrestle with the story of the two bears who maul forty-two lads taunting Elisha in 2 Kings 2:23–24. Little attention is given to the fact that bears are now extinct in Israel. This article reconsiders the passage and biblical bears in dialogue with a subgenre of animal studies known as “extinction studies.” Extinction studies in the humanities focus on “multispecies stories” about extinction over time. Using extinction studies to reexamin…
Critical Posthumanism and the Interpretation of the Bible's Animals
Scholars have increasingly turned their attention to the significance of animals in biblical literature. This article explores possibilities for interpreting such animals in dialogue with »critical posthumanism.« After a summary of some of the emphases found in academic posthumanism, three dynamics of biblical literature are examined further in terms of such emphases: the roles of goats, sheep, and other domesticated animals as the Israelites' »c…
“All These Look to You”
Psalm 104 is associated with biblical creation theology, but it seldom receives as much attention as the book of Genesis. Yet Genesis has been and continues to be used to justify human dominion over other animals, which has contributed to a new era in the earth’s history known as the “Anthropocene” epoch. In contrast, Psalm 104 provides an ecological representation of creation that recognizes God’s care for animals. Humans appear in the psalm, bu…
Judges 3 and the Queer Hermeneutics of Carnophallogocentrism
In ‘Eating Well’, Jacques Derrida uses the terms ‘carnivorous virility’ and ‘carnophallogocentrism’ to refer to a ‘schema’ that excludes women and animals from Western subjectivity and ethics. But a reference to homosexuality in ‘Eating Well’ also allows us to locate gay men in this configuration, which provides a framework for a ‘queer hermeneutics of carnophallogocentrism’. Here this hermeneutics shapes a reading of the story of Eglon, the Moab…
Animal Difference, Sexual Difference, and the Daughter of Jephthah
As many commentators note, the daughter of Jephthah is given as a burnt offering while Isaac is spared by divine intervention and animal substitution. Thus the sacrifice of Jephthah’s daughter raises questions about the relationships among sexual difference, animal difference, and human sacrifice in the Bible. This article explores such questions in dialogue with the interdisciplinary “animal turn” in the humanities and social sciences. The daugh…
Bible Trouble
Bible trouble
"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…
Bibles That Matter
Discussions of Bible and homosexuality, and discussions of postmodern biblical interpretation, have often taken place in isolation from one another. However, Judith Butler's “queer” approach to sex, gender and performativity may allow biblical scholars to rethink their objects and procedures in a manner that brings such discussions together. Grounded in a reading of speech act theory, Butler's work explores the possibility that gender, rather tha…
Bodily citations
"In such works as 'Gender Trouble' and "Bodies That Matter" Judith Butler broke new ground in understanding the construction and performance of identities. While Butler's writings have been crucial and often controversial in the development of feminist and queer theory, 'Bodily Citations' is the first anthology centered on applying her theories to religion. In this collection scholars in anthropology, biblical studies, theology, ethics, and ritua…
Animal Difference, Sexual Difference, and the Daughter of Jephthah
As many commentators note, the daughter of Jephthah is given as a burnt offering while Isaac is spared by divine intervention and animal substitution. Thus the sacrifice of Jephthah’s daughter raises questions about the relationships among sexual difference, animal difference, and human sacrifice in the Bible. This article explores such questions in dialogue with the interdisciplinary “animal turn” in the humanities and social sciences. The daugh…
Bodily citations
"In such works as 'Gender Trouble' and "Bodies That Matter" Judith Butler broke new ground in understanding the construction and performance of identities. While Butler's writings have been crucial and often controversial in the development of feminist and queer theory, 'Bodily Citations' is the first anthology centered on applying her theories to religion. In this collection scholars in anthropology, biblical studies, theology, ethics, and ritua…
Bibles That Matter
Discussions of Bible and homosexuality, and discussions of postmodern biblical interpretation, have often taken place in isolation from one another. However, Judith Butler's “queer” approach to sex, gender and performativity may allow biblical scholars to rethink their objects and procedures in a manner that brings such discussions together. Grounded in a reading of speech act theory, Butler's work explores the possibility that gender, rather tha…
Bible Trouble
Bible trouble
"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…
Animal Difference, Sexual Difference, and the Daughter of Jephthah
As many commentators note, the daughter of Jephthah is given as a burnt offering while Isaac is spared by divine intervention and animal substitution. Thus the sacrifice of Jephthah’s daughter raises questions about the relationships among sexual difference, animal difference, and human sacrifice in the Bible. This article explores such questions in dialogue with the interdisciplinary “animal turn” in the humanities and social sciences. The daugh…
Judges 3 and the Queer Hermeneutics of Carnophallogocentrism
In ‘Eating Well’, Jacques Derrida uses the terms ‘carnivorous virility’ and ‘carnophallogocentrism’ to refer to a ‘schema’ that excludes women and animals from Western subjectivity and ethics. But a reference to homosexuality in ‘Eating Well’ also allows us to locate gay men in this configuration, which provides a framework for a ‘queer hermeneutics of carnophallogocentrism’. Here this hermeneutics shapes a reading of the story of Eglon, the Moab…
“All These Look to You”
Psalm 104 is associated with biblical creation theology, but it seldom receives as much attention as the book of Genesis. Yet Genesis has been and continues to be used to justify human dominion over other animals, which has contributed to a new era in the earth’s history known as the “Anthropocene” epoch. In contrast, Psalm 104 provides an ecological representation of creation that recognizes God’s care for animals. Humans appear in the psalm, bu…
Critical Posthumanism and the Interpretation of the Bible's Animals
Scholars have increasingly turned their attention to the significance of animals in biblical literature. This article explores possibilities for interpreting such animals in dialogue with »critical posthumanism.« After a summary of some of the emphases found in academic posthumanism, three dynamics of biblical literature are examined further in terms of such emphases: the roles of goats, sheep, and other domesticated animals as the Israelites' »c…
Reading Elisha’s She-Bears
Readers wrestle with the story of the two bears who maul forty-two lads taunting Elisha in 2 Kings 2:23–24. Little attention is given to the fact that bears are now extinct in Israel. This article reconsiders the passage and biblical bears in dialogue with a subgenre of animal studies known as “extinction studies.” Extinction studies in the humanities focus on “multispecies stories” about extinction over time. Using extinction studies to reexamin…
Biblical Studies, Queer Affect, and the Politics of Respectability
This essay uses autobiographical, queer, and affective criticism to consider the implications of respectability politics for openly gay white men in biblical studies. Several anecdotes are narrated as a way of engaging the role of respectability politics in contemporary LGBTQ cultures, in queer biblical scholarship, in theological education, and in the affective life of a gay biblical scholar and teacher. A theoretical conclusion engages Michel F…
Saul M. Olyan, Animal Rights and the Hebrew Bible
Saul M. Olyan, Animal Rights and the Hebrew Bible (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), 156 pp., $83.00 (cloth), ISBN: 0197609385
Marriage
Philosophy (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Theology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Queer (4 works)