Transgender, intersex and Biblical Interpretation
By: by Teresa J. Hornsby and Deryn Guest
Contributors: Guest, Deryn, author
Series: Semeia studies -- number 83; Semeia studies -- no. 83.
Publisher: SBL Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
ISBN-13: 9780884141563; 9781628371352
Subjects: Bible; Gay interpretations; Transgender people; Biblical teaching; Queer theology; Hermeneutics; Gender identity in the Bible
Description: "A call for "trans literacy" within biblical scholarship. In this volume Hornsby and Guest introduce readers to terms for the various identities of trans people and how the Bible can be an affirmation of those deemed sexually other. This book offers readings of well known (e.g., Gen 1; Revelation) and not so well known (2 Sam 6; Jer 38) narratives to illustrate that the Bible has been translated and interpreted with a bias that makes heterosexuality and a two sex, two gender system natural, and thus divinely ordained. The authors present examples that show gender was never a binary, and in the Bible gender and sex are always dynamic categories that do, and must, transition. Features: 1) Definitions of key terms, including transsexual, transgender, cissexism, heterosexism, intersex, eunuch; 2) Critique of how biblical texts are used in Christian positional statements on transsexuality; 3) Statistics concerning rates of violence against trans persons."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: 880-01; title: Introduction: the body as decoy  -- Teresa J. Hornsby; title: Gender dualism, or the big lie  -- Teresa J. Hornsby; title: Troubling the waters : tehom : transgender, and reading Genesis backwards  -- Deryn Guest; title: Modeling the transgender gaze: performances of masculinities in 2 Kings 9-10  -- Deryn Guest; title: The dance of gender: David, Jesus, and Paul  -- Teresa J. Hornsby; title: Slender man and the new horrors of the apocalypse -- Teresa J. Hornsby.