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Practicing Safer Texts: Food, Sex and Bible in Queer Perspective (Queering Theology)

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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.


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--Sanford Lakoff

'[A] stimulating contribution to the Queering Theology series.' Robert Thompson, Modern Believing--Sanford Lakoff

--,

--Review in International Review of Biblical Studies, Vol 51: 2004/05

About the Author

Ken Stone is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at Chicago Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois. A Lambda Literary Award winner, he is author of Sex, Honor and Power in the Deuteronomistic History (Sheffield) and editor of Queer Commentary and the Hebrew Bible (Sheffield/Pilgrim).

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5.0 out of 5 stars Would You Like Fries With That?

G.T. · February 10, 2010

Do you like chocolate? Would you try fried pigeon intestines? Are you a vegetarian, or perhaps even vegan? Or do you like your steak medium rare? Does it matter?!Why is it we can be pretty relaxed about preferences/choices/tastes when it comes to food but, with regard to sex, some within certain Christian circles tend to place very strict boundaries around what is "safe" and what is not ...Stone explores an ethics of reading the biblical texts on both food and sex and considers the implications for "practicing safer texts" ...A fascinating example of queer theory at work in the area of theology and biblical studies. Add it to your reading "menu" now!

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Description:

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.


Editorial Reviews

Review

--Sanford Lakoff

'[A] stimulating contribution to the Queering Theology series.' Robert Thompson, Modern Believing--Sanford Lakoff

--,

--Review in International Review of Biblical Studies, Vol 51: 2004/05

About the Author

Ken Stone is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at Chicago Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois. A Lambda Literary Award winner, he is author of Sex, Honor and Power in the Deuteronomistic History (Sheffield) and editor of Queer Commentary and the Hebrew Bible (Sheffield/Pilgrim).

Reviews:

5.0 out of 5 stars Would You Like Fries With That?

G.T. · February 10, 2010

Do you like chocolate? Would you try fried pigeon intestines? Are you a vegetarian, or perhaps even vegan? Or do you like your steak medium rare? Does it matter?!Why is it we can be pretty relaxed about preferences/choices/tastes when it comes to food but, with regard to sex, some within certain Christian circles tend to place very strict boundaries around what is "safe" and what is not ...Stone explores an ethics of reading the biblical texts on both food and sex and considers the implications for "practicing safer texts" ...A fascinating example of queer theory at work in the area of theology and biblical studies. Add it to your reading "menu" now!

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