Take Back the Word : A Queer Reading of the

Perhaps the most revolutionary contribution of this volume is in its presentation of new and resistant practices of reading the Bible that challenge some of the prevailing "authorized" patterns of reading that allow the Bible to "clobber" oppressed people...If lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender, and seeking people are to take back this word for themselves, they must take it back in a new way

Foreword

vii

Mary Ann Tolbert

Contributors

xiii

Introduction

3

(10)

Part 1 QUEER STRATEGIES FOR READING

Reading the Bible from Low and Outside: Lesbitransgay People as God's Tricksters

13

(10)

Virginia Ramey Mollenkott

Camping around the Canon: Humor as a Hermeneutical Tool in Queer Readings of Biblical Texts

23

(12)

Elizabeth Stuart

Love Your Mother: A Lesbian Womanist Reading of Scripture

35

(8)

Irene S. Travis

Eating the Crumbs That Fall from the Table: Trusting the Abundance of God

43

(14)

Justin Tanis

Part 2 TAKING BACK THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES

The Garden of Eden and the Heterosexual Contract

57

(14)

Ken Stone

Outsiders, Aliens, and Boundary Crossers: A Queer Reading of the Hebrew Exodus

71

(11)

Mona West

When and Where I Enter, Then the Whole Race Enters with Me: Que(e)rying Exodus

82

(10)

Irene Monroe

The Book of Ruth: On Boundaries, Love, and Truth

92

(11)

Celena M. Duncan

Throwing a Party: Patriarchy, Gender, and the Death of Jezebel

103

(12)

Victoria S. Kolakowski

Nehemiah as a Queer Model for Servant Leadership

115

(9)

Michael S. Piazza

A Modern Psalm in the Midst of Breast Cancer

124

(2)

Irene S. Travis

A Love as Fierce as Death: Reclaiming the Song of Songs for Queer Lovers

126

(17)

Christopher King

Insider Out: Unmasking the Abusing God

143

(10)

Dawn Robinson Rose

Ezekiel Understands AIDS: AIDS Understands Ezekiel, or Reading the Bible with HIV

153

(8)

Jim Mitulski

A Queer Reading of the Book of Jonah

161

(9)

Sharon Bezner

Do Justice, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly: Reflections on Micah and Gay Ethics

170

(15)

Rebecca T. Alpert

Part 3 TAKING BACK THE CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES

Matthew and Mary of Magdala: Good News for Sex Workers

185

(11)

Thomas Hanks

Coming Out, Lazarus's and Ours: Queer Reflections of a Psychospiritual, Political Journey

196

(10)

Benjamin Perkins

The Beloved Disciple: A Queer Bereavement Narrative in a Time of AIDS

206

(13)

Robert E. Goss

``And Then He Kissed Me'': An Easter Love Story

219

(8)

James Martin

``To Cut or Not to Cut'': Is Compulsory Heterosexuality a Prerequisite for Christianity?

227

Thomas Bohache

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