- Hardcover: 859 pages
- Publisher: SCM Press (28 Sep 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0334040213
- ISBN-13: 978-0334040217
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 4.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,029,003 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Queer Bible Commentary brings together the work of several scholars and pastors known for their interest in the areas of gender, sexuality and Biblical studies. Rather than a verse-by-verse analysis, typical of more traditional commentaries, contributors to this volume focus specifically upon those portions of the book that have particular relevance for readers interested in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues such as the construction of gender and sexuality, the reification of heterosexuality, the question of lesbian and gay ancestry within the Bible, the transgendered voices of the prophets, the use of the Bible in contemporary political, socio-economic and religious spheres and the impact upon lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities. Accordingly, the commentary raises new questions and re-directs more traditional questions in fresh and innovative ways, offering new angles of approach. This comprehensive, cutting-edge commentary is prefaced by an introductory essay by Professor Mary Tolbert. Contributors draw on feminist, queer, deconstructionist, utopian theories, the social sciences and historical-critical discourses. The focus is both how reading from lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender perspectives affect the reading and interpretation of biblical texts and how biblical texts have and do affect lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender communities. The commentary includes an extensive bibliography that directs the reader to a full range of literature relating to queer interpretation of scripture.
About the Author
Dr Deryn Guest is Lecturer in Biblical Hermeneutics at the University of Birmingham. Dr Robert E Goss, is Senior Pastor Theologian at the Metropolitan Community Churches in North Hollywood. Dr Mona West taught at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville from 1987-1992. Thomas Bohache is a Pastor in the Metropolitan Community Churches, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book is heavy going in places but as it is written by many different authors, some chapters are easier than others.
I have been reading Old Testament criticism for about fifty-five years but someone coming to it new gets a very concise summary of the various debates. A lengthy introduction updates us on the `6 Bible bullets' against homosexuality. Scholars seem to turn over this debate endlessly and it is hard to keep up with it.
On the plus side, the book is very fair to the insights of Judaism and seeks to distance itself from supercessionism, for example in using the terms first and second testaments .
One of the best articles is that by Thomas Hanks, on the epistle to the Hebrews.
Marcella Althaus-Reid's article on Mark's Gospel is full of insight (I usually find her work impossible to comprehend) but is also inaccurate - she claims that the earliest manuscripts have no accounts of the resurrection. This is not true - they have no accounts of resurrection appearances but they do contain the empty tomb. Also, she refers to a meeting of the Lambeth Conference is 2003 - does she mean 2008?
Thomas Bohache's article on Colossians argues that it should be removed from the canon of scripture because it endorses, rather than challenges, the status quo of the Roman Empire. It's a pity that he didn't keep his reading up to date. Brian Walshe and Sylvia Keesmaat's Colossians Remixed: Subverting the Empire demonstrates in considerable detail that the exact opposite was the case.
Bohache also suggests that Barth, Bultmann and Rahner emphasize Christ's divinity at the expense of his divinity. He is woefully ignorant of their theology if he thinks that.
On the negative side, there is some special pleading. It seems like every biblical character is gay. This is a reading into the text, though there is a place for but reading playfully in the style of midrash. However, the chapter on the book of Revelation sees phallic symbols everywhere. Such far-fetched eisegesis is likely to put straight people off; the very people who ought to read this book.
I have been reading Old Testament criticism for about fifty-five years but someone coming to it new gets a very concise summary of the various debates. A lengthy introduction updates us on the `6 Bible bullets' against homosexuality. Scholars seem to turn over this debate endlessly and it is hard to keep up with it.
On the plus side, the book is very fair to the insights of Judaism and seeks to distance itself from supercessionism, for example in using the terms first and second testaments .
One of the best articles is that by Thomas Hanks, on the epistle to the Hebrews.
Marcella Althaus-Reid's article on Mark's Gospel is full of insight (I usually find her work impossible to comprehend) but is also inaccurate - she claims that the earliest manuscripts have no accounts of the resurrection. This is not true - they have no accounts of resurrection appearances but they do contain the empty tomb. Also, she refers to a meeting of the Lambeth Conference is 2003 - does she mean 2008?
Thomas Bohache's article on Colossians argues that it should be removed from the canon of scripture because it endorses, rather than challenges, the status quo of the Roman Empire. It's a pity that he didn't keep his reading up to date. Brian Walshe and Sylvia Keesmaat's Colossians Remixed: Subverting the Empire demonstrates in considerable detail that the exact opposite was the case.
Bohache also suggests that Barth, Bultmann and Rahner emphasize Christ's divinity at the expense of his divinity. He is woefully ignorant of their theology if he thinks that.
On the negative side, there is some special pleading. It seems like every biblical character is gay. This is a reading into the text, though there is a place for but reading playfully in the style of midrash. However, the chapter on the book of Revelation sees phallic symbols everywhere. Such far-fetched eisegesis is likely to put straight people off; the very people who ought to read this book.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The chapter dealing with the Book of Revelation refers to sexual acts between God the Father and God the Son. This sets the tone for the avant garde nature of the volume, though not all entries are as crude and blasphemous. The narrow "gay" agenda of the commentary, however, brutally distorts the literary, historical, theological and spiritual integrity of the scriptures which it seeks to illuminate. The reality is there can be no "queer" perspective on the bible any more than there can be an "albino" or "agoraphobic" one.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a must-have for anyone interested in Queer approaches to the Bible. Scholarly and innovative, it makes an important contribution to this developing field.The Queer Bible Commentary
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