Appalling Bodies

Queer Figures Before and After Paul's Letters

AvJoseph A. Marchal

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-12-21
Mått:152 x 237 x 19 mm
Vikt:485 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:328
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780197668962
Utmärkelser:Honorable Mention Selection from the Borsch-Rast Prize and Lectureship

Utforska kategorier

Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Biblar inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Joseph A. Marchal is Professor of Religious Studies and affiliate faculty in Women's and Gender Studies at Ball State University. Marchal is the author and editor of ten books, most recently: After the Corinthian Women Prophets: Reimagining Rhetoric and Power (2021), Bodies on the Verge: Queering Pauline Epistles (2019), Sexual Disorientations: Queer Temporalities, Affects, Theologies (2018), and Philippians: Historical Problems, Hierarchical Visions, Hysterical Anxieties (2017).

Recensioner i media

This book is rich in theory, in history, in how breaking rules (e.g., using anachronisms) and 'dwelling longer in zones of confusion' can be strategically effective in forming intersectional coalitions.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments Prelude: Before and After Romosexuality Queer Reconfigurations Past Paul After This Before Chapter One: Touching Figures: Reaching Past Paul Between Brooten and a Halperin Place How to Get Stuck in "the Middle" with Sedgwick and Butler Toward Some Touching Connections? Chapter Two: A Close Corinthian Shave: Trans / Androgyne Corinthian Citations, Pauline Performativity, and Echoes of Androgyny Ancient Androgyny, Reconsidered Hair-Raising Androgyny and the Corinthian Assembly? Transgender and Other Mobilizations of Masculinity Resembling and Assembling Female (Masculine) Prophets Chapter Three: Uncut Galatians: Intersex / Eunuch "They tried to write their Gospel on my body": Defining, Treating, Resisting An Ancient Pal, Against Genital Cutting? A Cutting Joke Facing the Phallus, Cutting to the Fore(skin) "Don't Quote Ovid to Me" (and Don't Bother with Paul Either?) Conclusion Chapter Four: Use: Bottom / Slave The Use of Slaves The Use of Onesimus: Chresis and Consent, Puns and Patrons Switching Biblical Bonds Other Uses of History How Not to Race Past Attending to the Past Whipping Through Time Chapter Five: Assembled Gentiles: Terrorist / Barbarian Exceptional Sexual The Epistles' Exceptionalism Barbarians, Among Other Perverse Figures Exceptionalism Rules An Unexceptional Paul Some Alternative Assembly Required Analogy, Anachronism, Assembly: A Contingent Conclusion Epilogue: Biblical Drag Bibliography Indexes