By Robert J. Myles, Caroline Blyth

What occurs while explorations of sexuality, gender and the Bible move down below? This interesting choice of essays, written through students positioned within the Antipodes, traverses the hugely contested landscapes of sexuality, gender and religious study, revealing a myriad of sexual discourses voiced inside either the biblical texts and their interpretative traditions. spotting that textual that means is often formed by way of the cultural and contextual luggage the reader brings to the interpretative activity, individuals increase provocative questions about the meanings, identities and ideologies that encompass biblical discourses of sexuality and gender, exploring how those were and will be reshaped and reconceived. Deane Galbraith examines the theological reflections of Augustine and Paul on Adam's 'perfect penis' in Eden whereas Roland Boer explores the earthy biblical vocabulary used to depict girl genitalia. Christina Petterson, in the meantime, examines the Moravian Brethren's get together of a Christ who bore on his physique female and male genitalia. traveling past the sexualized human physique, Emily Colgan considers the problematical language of gender violence opposed to the land that's voiced in Jeremiah. Elaine Wainwright blurs and queers the binary different types of human and non-human within the Sermon at the Mount. Yael Klangwisan maintains this blurring of limitations via her artistic studying of tune of Songs. relocating from the gendered physique to the gendered voice, Alan Cadwallader probes Paul's rhetorical gender-bending in his 'masculinized' oral tradition. Caroline Blyth and Teguh Wijaya Mulya empower Delilah to vocalize her queer capability in either the biblical narrative and pop culture. Gillian Townsley provides her personal Kiwi voice to discover queer percentages in Philippians 4.2-3 within the mild of recent Zealand's same-sex marriage laws. the quantity concludes with a queer reconsideration of the Antipodes themselves from the point of view of a northern-hemisphere biblical pupil, Hugh Pyper. This compelling assortment will make a important contribution to the bookshelves of students and readers in such components as religious study, faith and gender-queer reports.

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T. Clark, 2008), p. 106. 10. This is consistent with translations by ASV, JSB, NET, NIV, NJB, RSV; also Leslie C. Allen, Jeremiah: A Commentary (OTL; Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 2008), p. 83; Maier, Daughter Zion, Mother Zion, p. 85. COLGAN ‘Come upon Her’ 23 classified as ‘accusations against Judah and Jerusalem’,11 but it is not difficult to identify the markers of battle in Jer. 1-8. Both senses of sight and sound are evoked in v. a>mâ (v. 13 Typically translated in the weakened sense of ‘prepare’, qaddešû is more appropriately rendered ‘consecrate’ here, indicating a background of religious ritual or divine consent in the phrase ‘consecrate war against her [the city]’.

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