Kenneth Stone - Böcker

This book uses the ubiquitous comparison between food and sex as a framework for examining a number of texts from the Hebrew Bible, as well as later readings of those texts and interpretive issues raised by the texts. A range of biblical texts in which both food and sex appear are analyzed in an interdisciplinary fashion with the help of both traditional tools of biblical scholarship and less traditional tools such as Queer studies and cultural anthropology. By utilizing a reading lens that relates food and sex to one another intentionally, rather than treating them separately, the book will among other things question the tendency of readers of the Bible to overstress the gravity of sexual matters in relation to other matters of potential ethical, theological, exegetical and cultural concern, such as food. At the same time, as the title Practising Safer Texts indicates, the book also proposes a pragmatic approach to biblical interpretation that uses strategies of "safer sex" as a sort of loose model.Such an approach assesses texts and readings of the Bible not in a universalizing fashion but rather in terms of their likely effects, for good or ill, on particular readers in particular contexts and situations (just as notions of "safer sex" ask us to assess sexual acts not in a moralizing fashion but, rather, in terms of their likely effects on particular persons.

In this revised edition of his classic work, Ken Stone uses the ubiquitous comparison between food and sex as a framework for a queer reading of key texts. Stone reflects on these texts in an interdisciplinary fashion, with the help of traditional tools of biblical scholarship alongside less traditional tools such as Queer studies and cultural anthropology.By utilizing a reading lens that relates food and sex to one another intentionally, rather than treating them separately, Stone questions the tendency of readers to overstress the gravity of sexual matters in relation to other topics of potential ethical, theological, exegetical and cultural concern. As the title Practising Safer Texts indicates, Stone also proposes a pragmatic approach to biblical interpretation that uses strategies of "safer sex" as a loose model.This revised edition features a new chapter that highlights the relevance of this impactful work today. This chapter explores Genesis 1:28 and 1:29, the role of childbirth and sexual reproduction as a focal point for queer analysis, and also touches upon modern debates such as ecological destruction. The volume also includes a new preface that addresses the rise to prominence of transgender issues, what has happened to the exploration of food, sex, and queer hermeneutics in biblical interpretation since the first edition’s publication, and the continued need for an approach to biblical interpretation that emphasizes harm reduction as a framework for biblical hermeneutics.

In this revised edition of his classic work, Ken Stone uses the ubiquitous comparison between food and sex as a framework for a queer reading of key texts. Stone reflects on these texts in an interdisciplinary fashion, with the help of traditional tools of biblical scholarship alongside less traditional tools such as Queer studies and cultural anthropology.By utilizing a reading lens that relates food and sex to one another intentionally, rather than treating them separately, Stone questions the tendency of readers to overstress the gravity of sexual matters in relation to other topics of potential ethical, theological, exegetical and cultural concern. As the title Practising Safer Texts indicates, Stone also proposes a pragmatic approach to biblical interpretation that uses strategies of "safer sex" as a loose model.This revised edition features a new chapter that highlights the relevance of this impactful work today. This chapter explores Genesis 1:28 and 1:29, the role of childbirth and sexual reproduction as a focal point for queer analysis, and also touches upon modern debates such as ecological destruction. The volume also includes a new preface that addresses the rise to prominence of transgender issues, what has happened to the exploration of food, sex, and queer hermeneutics in biblical interpretation since the first edition’s publication, and the continued need for an approach to biblical interpretation that emphasizes harm reduction as a framework for biblical hermeneutics.

Shimazaki's 1906 classic of modern Japanese literature portrays a young man born into the Burakumin outcaste class and his struggle against both social discrimination and his own hypocrisy.

A collection of specially-commissioned studies by gay, lesbian and other scholars on how 'Queer Theory' and 'queer' readings make a difference to biblical exegesis. It contains theoretical expositions and discussion, exegetical demonstrations and critical reflections. In spite of the explosion of interest in Lesbian and Gay Studies and Queer Theory, there have been few attempts to present biblical exegesis in the light of these perspectives. This volume is a collection of essays, not on the well-worn biblical passages about homosexuality, but exploring and explaining how 'Queer' reading makes a difference to biblical exegesis. As with feminism, theoretical questions arise such as whetherthese sorts of readings are characterized by certain questions or can only legitimately be done by gay or lesbian readers. The essays, by scholars from a range of backgrounds and a variety of interests - Jewish, Christian, agnostic, male, female, heterosexual, gay and lesbian - mostly concentrate on individual passages and books, but the volume also contains, and is intended to offer, some theoretical reflections.It ends with three 'critical responses' from scholars with interdisciplinary interests, commenting on the place of Queer Reading of the Bible in broader contexts. Here is a unique and indispensable resource for anyone interested in contemporary issues of bible interpretation or in Queer Theory generally.