Appalling Bodies

Queer Figures Before and After Paul's Letters

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ID20022422
AuthorsJoseph A Marchal (corresponding author)
Year2019
Pages324
Publication date2019-11-08
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueAppalling Bodies (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated (PUBLISHER)
OpenAlexW2996314734
Open LibraryOL29472012M
ISBN9780190060312
LanguageEN
References cited164

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

Art · Art history · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society · Religion, Theology, History, Judaism, Christianity · Bible · Criticism, interpretation · Queer theology · Sex in the Bible

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