Sodomy
Subtitle: The History of a Christian Biblical Myth (Bibleworld) (Bibleworld)
Publisher: Equinox Publishing; Routledge
Published: February 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781904768302
Subjects: Biblical studies, criticism & exegesis; Religion; Religion - Biblical Studies; Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - New Testament; Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - Old Testament; Biblical Studies - Old Testament; Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - General; Bible; Christianity; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Genesis XIX; History; History of doctrines; Homosexuality; Judaism; O.T; Religious aspects
Description: "Sodomy is a study of the reception of Genesis 19, Sodom and Gomorrah, together with the parallel story in Judges 19-21, the outrage at Gibeah, in both Christian and Jewish traditions from antiquity through to the Reformation period. The book sets out to detoxify the dominant homophobic interpretation of Genesis 19, in which Sodom and Gomorrah serve as an archetypal story of divine antipathy towards same-sex love and desire, by showing it to be a Christian invention, emerging in the first few centuries of the Christian era."--BOOK JACKET.