Delighted to have @lhuber01 give a Carpenter Lecture on queering the Bible and Revelation in particular. #queerthebible
To queer is to question and trouble. @lhuber01 quoting Kent Brintnall. #queerthebible
Why #queerthebible? Because of its violent application to LGBTQIA+ folk, particularly kids and role of Bible in anti-gay laws and religious identities of queer folk. Need for new/other interpretive paradigms. @lhuber01
#QueeringTheBible is not new. Reclobbering the clobber passages is self-protective and good contextual literary and linguistic exegesis. See 2 Cor 6:9-11 for mistranslation and a word that may have been a neologism. @lhuber01
Outing ancient characters as queer can do harm by imposing modern categories and identities. #queerthebible @lhuber01
Reading from the outside is a queer hermeneutic of suspicion rooted in the positionality of queer outside the centered community. @lhuber01 #QueerTheBible
Reading the Lamb as a queer figure in Revelation. It confounds gender expectations: wounded, pierced-an act of feminization yet also powerful in male terms and throne-worthy. #QueerTheBible @lhuber01
Other queer images in Revelation: a man with bound breast/s, all those male virgins and John’s submission to a dominating angel above him. @lhuber01 #QueerTheBible
It was a great lecture @lhuber01!
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