LGBT/Queer Hermeneutics and the Hebrew Bible
LGBT and queer interpretive approaches have moved beyond the identitarian and apologetic stances of the 1970s-90s, when the first order of business was to respond to anti-gay voices and understand social location as an interpretive standpoint. The HIV/AIDS health crisis helped move some LGBT interpr...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2017
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| In: |
Currents in biblical research
Year: 2017, Volume: 15, Issue: 3, Pages: 289-314 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
LGBT
/ Sexuality
/ Old Testament
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| IxTheo Classification: | FD Contextual theology HB Old Testament NCF Sexual ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Intersex
B Bisexual B Queer B LGBTQ B Sexuality B Transgender B Gender B Lesbian B Biblical Interpretation B HIV / AIDS B Gay |
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| Summary: | LGBT and queer interpretive approaches have moved beyond the identitarian and apologetic stances of the 1970s-90s, when the first order of business was to respond to anti-gay voices and understand social location as an interpretive standpoint. The HIV/AIDS health crisis helped move some LGBT interpreters away from homosexuality as an object of study to placing themselves inside the text as subjects, lamenting with the Psalms or putting God in the dock like Job. Queer interpretation, anti-essentialist in spirit, moved away from identitarian concerns placing queer interpreters outside the text as interrogators. Queer biblical criticism resists heteronormativity as the default interpretive stance, but embraces the study of the body, gender performance, midrash-making and playfulness with biblical texts. The queer interpretive approach has begun to mature as it seeks intersections with minoritized criticisms, disability studies and the rising consciousness of intersex people, while criticizing itself as well. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5200 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Currents in biblical research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/1476993X16683331 |