Ancestral Queerness
Subtitle: The Normal and the Deviant in the Abraham and Sarah Narratives
Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9781910928530
Subjects: Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc.
Description: "What would it look like to be queer in the time of Abraham and Sarah? What is normative and what is deviant in their stories? What does this have to do with queer lives today? In Ancestral Queerness, Gil Rosenberg uses a careful comparative method to develop a cross-cultural queer category (‘Queer’). He applies this category to Abraham and Sarah and argues that, Abraham and Sarah may usefully be regarded as ‘Queer’ ...  Ancestral Queerness breaks new ground by developing a queer theory applicable to diverse cultures, revealing the bias in previous scholarship on Abraham and Sarah, and opening up new paths of interpretation in their narratives." -- publisher description.