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T&T Clark Handbook of Sexualities in the Bible and its Reception
T&T Clark Handbook of Sexualities in the Bible and its Reception
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This volume explores the range and richness of sexualities evoked in the biblical texts and their reception history. Contributors utilise theoretical and hermeneutical approaches to engage with different aspects of sexualities in/and the Bible, including the beliefs, behaviours, and bodies that haunt both the texts and their interpretive traditions.
The contributors cover themes that have previously been subject to much debate in biblical scholarship, such as LGBTQI+ identities, heterosexuality, marriage, sexual violence, and circumcision, but it also engages with issues that tend to receive less scholarly attention, including asexuality, homoeroticism, voyeurism, sex work, masturbation, menstruation, pornography, disability, mental health, and reproductive justice. Written from a diversity of disciplinary perspectives, including biblical studies, sexuality studies, theology, religious studies, gender studies, cultural studies, disability studies, psychology and philosophy, each chapter offers fresh, and at times surprising, insights about sexualities in/and the Bible and its reception history.
Table of Contents
Dedication
Abbreviations
Introduction (Chris Greenough, Edge Hill University, UK, and Caroline Blyth, Independent Researcher, New Zealand)
Beyond Heteronormativity – Exploring Dominant and Subjugated Sexualities
Chapter One: Nothing Queer Here: The Straight Family and Ministry of Jesus (Lisa Isherwood, Trinity St Davids, Wales, UK)
Chapter Two: Lesbian Sexualities (Stephanie Day Powell, Manhatten College, USA)
Chapter Three : The Love Life of Qohelet (Ecclesiastes) (Uri Wernik, Independent Scholar, Israel)
Chapter Four: The History of Homoerotic Readings (Chris Zeichmann, University of Toronto, Canada)
Chapter Five: Making Visible the 'Invisible Orientation': Strategies for Seeing Asexuality in the Bible and Its Reception (Jessica Coblentz, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, USA)
Sexualities and Identities – Navigating Intersextions with Sexuality
Chapter Six: Sexualities and Biblical Sex Work (Sarah Nicholson, University of Glasgow, UK)
Chapter Seven The Bible and Reproductive Justice: Vegetarianism as a Model for the Debate about the Bible and Abortion (Melanie Howard, Fresno Pacific University, USA)
Chapter Eight: Disability and Sexuality (Kirsty Jones, University of Georgetown, USA)
Chapter Nine: Spiritual Care, LGBTQ+ Sexualities, and the Bible (Cody Sanders, Chicago Theological Seminary, USA)
Chapter Ten: Reading Scripture as a Discursive Fight to the Death: The Bible and the Battle over the Truth of Sex and Sexuality (Mark Jennings Wollaston Theological College, Australia)
Performing Sexualities
Chapter Eleven: Discursive Practices of Menstruation and Im/Purity in the Hebrew Bible and Its Context (Dorothea Erbele-Kuester, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany)
Chapter Twelve: Periods, Pulpits and Possible Futures (Rosie Clare Shorter, Western Sydney University, Australia, Erin Martine Hutton, Australian College of Theology, Australia)
Chapter Thirteen: The Ideal Penis in the Bible and Its Reception (Ryan Collman, Westcott House, UK)
Chapter Fourteen: Procreation or Recreation? Sex for Pleasure in the Song of Songs (Laura Quick, University of Oxford, UK)
Chapter Fifteen: Let Him Kiss Me with the Kisses of His Wound: Metamorphoses of Christ as Bridegroom (Karmen MacKendrick, Le Moyne College, USA)
Chapter Sixteen: On Pornography and Artificial Intelligence: Some Theological Reflections (Teguh Wijaya Mulya, University of Surabaya, Indonesia)
Interrogating Violence and Sexualities
Chapter Seventeen: Can't Help Falling in Love with You: Yhwh and David's Queer, Passionate, Abusive Love Affair (Barbara Thiede, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
Chapter Eighteen: She's a Knockout: Sexuality, Violence and Piety in the Book of Judith (Caroline Blyth, Independent Researcher, New Zealand and Emily Colgan, Trinity Methodist College, Auckland, New Zealand)
Chapter Nineteen: Incest and the Hebrew Bible (Johanna Stiebert, University of Leeds, UK)
Chapter Twenty: Naked Women and Creepy Men: Voyeurism in the Bible (Caryn Tamber-Rosenau, University of Houston, USA)
Chapter Twenty-One: Enslavement and Sexual Violence in the Lukan Annunciation (Eric Vanden Eykel, Ferrum College, USA)
Chapter Twenty-Two: Reading Hosea 1–2 from Colonized Country: Sexual Violence and the Taming of Fertile Lands and Bodies (Laura Griffin, La Trobe University, Australia)
Afterword: Where Do We Go From Here? And What Do We Read Along the Way? (Chris Greenough, Edge Hill University, UK, and Caroline Blyth, Independent Researcher, New Zealand)
Subject Index
Religious Texts Index
Product details
Published | 30 Apr 2026 |
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Format | Hardback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 448 |
ISBN | 9780567712363 |
Imprint | T&T Clark |
Dimensions | 244 x 169 mm |
Series | T&T Clark Handbooks |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |