Appalling Bodies : Queer Figures Before and After Paul's Letters

Joseph A. (Associate Professor of Religious Studies Marchal

ISBN 10: 019006031X / ISBN 13: 9780190060312

Published by Oxford University Press Inc Jan 2020, 2020

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Neuware - The letters of Paul are among the most commonly cited biblical texts in ongoing cultural and religious disputes about gender, sexuality, and embodiment. Joseph Marchal addresses Paul's letters from the perspective of queer theory and juxtaposes figures from the letters who vary in their gender, sexuality, and embodiment with modern examples in order to defamiliarize and reorient what can be known about both.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Appalling Bodies : Queer Figures Before and After Paul's Letters
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Jan 2020
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019006031X
• ISBN 13: 9780190060312
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 243W x 166H x 25D millimeters 243 millimeters width by 166 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 672 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Joseph A. Marchal is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and affiliate faculty in Women's and Gender Studies at Ball State University. Marchal is the author and editor of several works, most recently Philippians: Historical Problems, Hierarchical Visions, Hysterical Anxieties (2017), Sexual Disorientations: Queer Temporalities, Affects, Theologies (with Kent L. Brintnall and Stephen D. Moore; 2018), and Bodies on the Verge: Queering Pauline Epistles (2019).