Indeed , my title , ' Practicing Safer Text ' , is itself an example of the use of issues associated today with sex and / or food to ' re - think ' biblical interpretation . It is also an indication of my intention to argue in this book ...

Author: Kenneth Stone

Publisher: A&C Black

ISBN: 0567081729

Category: Religion

Page: 198

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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.

In his book Practicing Safer Texts: Food, Sex, and Bible in Queer Perspective, Ken Stone presents a unique approach to the Bible: “to 'think' food and sex in comparable ways” and to employ that thinking in the interpretation of the ...

Author: Martin Camper

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780190677138

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 216

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From the Constitution to the Bible, from literary classics to political sound bites, our modern lives are filled with numerous texts that govern and influence our behavior and beliefs. Whether in the courtrooms of our judiciaries or over our dining room tables, we argue over what these texts mean as we apply them to our lives. Various schools of hermeneutics offer theories of how we generally understand the world around us or how to read certain types of texts to arrive at the correct or best interpretation, but most neglect the argumentative and persuasive nature of every act of interpretation. In Arguing over Texts, Martin Camper presents a rhetorical method for understanding the types of disagreement people have over the meaning of texts and the lines of argument they use to resolve those disagreements. Camper's fresh approach has its roots in the long forgotten interpretive stases, originally devised by ancient Greek and Roman teachers of rhetoric for inventing courtroom arguments concerning the meaning of legal documents such as wills, laws, and contracts. The interpretive stases identify general, recurring debates over textual meaning and catalogue the lines of reasoning arguers may employ to support their preferred interpretations. Drawing on contemporary research in language, persuasion, and cognition, Camper expands the scope of the interpretive stases to cover textual controversies in virtually any context. To illustrate the interpretive stases' wide range of applicability, Arguing over Texts contains examples of interpretive debates from law, politics, religion, history, and literary criticism. Arguing over Texts will appeal to anyone who is interested in analyzing and constructing interpretive arguments.

Practicing Safer Texts: Food, Sex and Bible in Queer Perspective. London and New York: T. & T. Clark, 2005. ———, ed. Queer Commentary and the Hebrew Bible. Sheffield/Cleveland: Sheffield Academic Press/Pilgrim Press, 2001.

Author: Steven L. McKenzie

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

ISBN: 9780664238162

Category: Religion

Page: 181

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"As . . . newer approaches [to biblical criticism] become more established and influential, it is essential that students and other serious readers of the Bible be exposed to them and become familiar with them. That is the main impetus behind the present volume, which is offered as a textbook for those who wish to go further than the approaches covered in To Each Its Own Meaning by exploring more recent or experimental ways of reading." „from the introduction This book is a supplement and sequel to To Each Its Own Meaning, edited by Steven L. McKenzie and Stephen R. Haynes, which introduced the reader to the most important methods of biblical criticism and remains a widely used classroom textbook. This new volume explores recent developments in, and approaches to, biblical criticism since 1999. Leading contributors define and describe their approach for non-specialist readers, using examples from the Old and New Testament to help illustrate their discussion. Topics include cultural criticism, disability studies, queer criticism, postmodernism, ecological criticism, new historicism, popular culture, postcolonial criticism, and psychological criticism. Each section includes a list of key terms and definitions and suggestions for further reading.

25 K. A. Stone, Practicing Safer Texts: Food, Sex and Bible in Queer Perspective (London & New York: T&T Clark, 2005), p. 98 26J. C. Exum, Song of Songs: A Commentary (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2005), p. 15 27 Ibid., p.

Author: Hannah Bacon

Publisher: A&C Black

ISBN: 9780567616487

Category: Religion

Page: 224

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Transforming Exclusion is concerned with the interface between the study of religion & theology and issues surrounding exclusion. Religious beliefs can be important in shaping attitudes that can lead to the exploitation or marginalization of both humans and non-humans. At the same time, religious beliefs and practices have much to offer in transforming the world, creating a more equitable place for all who occupy it. At other times, the voices of members of religious communities are suppressed and marginalized by other more dominant religious or secular individuals or communities. This book addresses all of these aspects of social exclusion and aims to demonstrate that the study of theology and religion, in addressing religious communities and society more widely, have important contributions to make in creating a more just world. The issue of exclusion is engaged with from a range of different perspectives by scholars involved in fieldwork with religious communities, systematic, contextual and practical theologians, and practitioners involved in the preparation of individuals and groups for a range of ministries and professions.

21 Ken Stone, Practicing Safer Texts: Food, Sex and Bible in Queer Perspective (New York, NY: T&T Clark International, 2005), 79–80. 22 Caroline Blyth, The Narratives of Rape in Genesis 34: Interpreting Dinah's Silence (New York, ...

Author: Susanne Scholz

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780190077501

Category: Religion

Page: 640

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The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible brings together 37 essential essays written by leading international scholars, examining crucial points of analysis within the field of feminist Hebrew Bible studies. Organized into four major areas - globalization, neoliberalism, media, and intersectionality - the essays collectively provide vibrant, relevant, and innovative contributions to the field. The topics of analysis focus heavily on gender and queer identity, with essays touching on African, Korean, and European feminist hermeneutics, womanist and interreligious readings, ecofeminist and animal biblical studies, migration biblical studies, the role of gender binary voices in evangelical-egalitarian approaches, and the examination of scripture in light of trans women's voices. The volume also includes essays examining the Old Testament as recited in music, literature, film, and video games. The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible charts a culturally, hermeneutically, and exegetically cutting-edge path for the ongoing development of biblical studies grounded in feminist, womanist, gender, and queer perspectives.

The most sophisticated use of socio-critical hermeneutics is in the work by the queer theorist Ken Stone entitled Practicing Safer Texts: Food, Sex and Bible in Queer Perspective.31 His book analyses just some of the many texts in the ...

Author: Nathan MacDonald

Publisher: OUP Oxford

ISBN: 9780191562983

Category: Bibles

Page: 278

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In ancient Israel the production of food was a basic concern of almost every Israelite. Consequently, there are few pages in the Old Testament that do not mention food, and food provides some of the most important social, political and religious symbols in the biblical text. Not Bread Alone is the first detailed and wide-ranging examination of food and its symbolism in the Old Testament and the world of ancient Israel. Many of these symbols are very well-known, such as the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, the abominable pig and the land flowing with milk and honey. Nathan MacDonald demonstrates that the breadth biblical symbolism associated with food reaches beyond these celebrated examples, providing a collection of interrelated studies that draw on work on food in anthropology or other historical disciplines. The studies maintain sensitivity to the literary nature of the text as well as the many historical-critical questions that arise when studying it. Topics examined include: the nature and healthiness of the ancient Israelite diet; the relationship between food and memory in Deuteronomy; the confusion of food, sex and warfare in Judges; the place of feasting in the Israelite monarchy; the literary motif of divine judgement at the table; the use of food in articulating Israelite identity in the post-exilic period. The concluding chapter shows how some of these Old Testament concerns find resonance in the New Testament.

Kenneth Stone, Practicing Safer Texts: Food, Sex, and Bible in Queer Perspective (London: T & T Clark International, 2005), 123. 29. Inhorn, Local Babies, Global Science, 64; Stone, Practicing Safer Texts, 123; Marcia Inhorn, ...

Author: A. L. Jones

Publisher: Lexington Books

ISBN: 9780739190975

Category: Psychology

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Among numerous ancient Western tropes about gender and procreation, “the seed and the soil” is arguably the oldest, most potent, and most invisible in its apparent naturalness. The Gender Vendors denaturalizes this proto-theory of procreation and deconstructs its contemporary legacy. As metaphor for gender and procreation, seed-and-soil constructs the father as the sole generating parent and the mother as nurturing medium, like soil, for the man’s seed-child. In other words, men give life; women merely give birth. The Gender Vendors examines seed-and-soil in the context of the psychology of gender, honor and chastity codes, female genital mutilation, the taboo on male femininity, femiphobia (the fear of being feminine or feminized), sexual violence, institutionalized abuse, the early modern witch hunts, the medicalization and criminalization of gender nonconformity, and campaigns against women’s rights. The examination is structured around particular watersheds in the history of seed-and-soil, for example, Genesis, ancient Greece, early Christianity, the medieval Church, the early modern European witch hunts, and the campaigns of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries against women’s suffrage and education. The neglected story of seed-and-soil matters to everyone who cares about gender equality and why it is taking so long to achieve.

Ken Stone, Practicing Safer Texts: Food, Sex and Bible in Queer Perspective, Queering Theology Series (London: T. & T. Clark International, 2004), 110. 35. Ibid., 125. 36. The biblical adultery laws take into account only the marital ...

Author: Rhiannon Graybill

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780190627379

Category: Religion

Page: 304

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Are We Not Men? offers an innovative approach to gender and embodiment in the Hebrew Bible, revealing the male body as a source of persistent difficulty for the Hebrew prophets. Drawing together key moments in prophetic embodiment, Graybill demonstrates that the prophetic body is a queer body, and its very instability makes possible new understandings of biblical masculinity. Prophecy disrupts the performance of masculinity and demands new ways of inhabiting the body and negotiating gender. Graybill explores prophetic masculinity through critical readings of a number of prophetic bodies, including Isaiah, Moses, Hosea, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. In addition to close readings of the biblical texts, this account engages with modern intertexts drawn from philosophy, psychoanalysis, and horror films: Isaiah meets the poetry of Anne Carson; Hosea is seen through the lens of possession films and feminist film theory; Jeremiah intersects with psychoanalytic discourses of hysteria; and Ezekiel encounters Daniel Paul Schreber's Memoirs of My Nervous Illness. Graybill also offers a careful analysis of the body of Moses. Her methods highlight unexpected features of the biblical texts, and illuminate the peculiar intersections of masculinity, prophecy, and the body in and beyond the Hebrew Bible. This assembly of prophets, bodies, and readings makes clear that attending to prophecy and to prophetic masculinity is an important task for queer reading. Biblical prophecy engenders new forms of masculinity and embodiment; Are We Not Men?offers a valuable map of this still-uncharted terrain.

35 Ken Stone, Practicing Safer Texts: Food, Sex and Bible in Queer Perspective (London: T&T Clark, 2005). 36 Robert P. Carroll, “YHWH's Sour Grapes: Images of Food and Drink in the Prophetic Discourses of the Hebrew Bible,” Semeia 86: ...

Author: Naomi S.S. Jacobs

Publisher: BRILL

ISBN: 9789004382473

Category: Religion

Page: 296

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In Delicious Prose: Reading the Tale of Tobit with Food and Drink, Naomi S.S. Jacobs explores how the numerous references to food, drink, and their consumption within The Book of Tobit help tell its story, promote righteous deeds, and encourage resistance against a hostile dominant culture.

See also Ken Stone, Practicing Safer Texts: Food, Sex, and Bible in Queer Perspective (New York and London: T&T Clark, 2005), 46–50; Jacob Milgrom, Leviticus 1– 16: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (New York: Doubleday ...

Author: Danya Ruttenberg

Publisher: NYU Press

ISBN: 9780814776056

Category: Religion

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This collection of essays from Jewish scholars explores a broad range of fundamental questions in an effort to balance ancient tradition and modern sexuality. Amongst other topics, it looks at post-modernism, feminism and gay liberation, discussing how subjects such as these have challenged time-honoured traditions and ways of thinking.