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SEXUALITY, IDEOLOGY AND THE BIBLE The Bible in the Modern World, 70 Series Editors David J.A. Clines, J. Cheryl Exum, Jorunn Økland, Stephen D. Moore Editorial Board Alison Jasper, Tat-siong Benny Liew, Caroline Vander Stichele Sheffield Studies in the Bible and Culture, 1 Series Editor Katie B. Edwards S , I B EXUALITY DEOLOGY AND THE IBLE ANTIPODEAN ENGAGEMENTS Edited by Robert J. Myles and Caroline Blyth SHEFFIELD PHOENIX PRESS 2015 Copyright © 2015 Sheffield Phoenix Press Published by Sheffield Phoenix Press Department of Biblical Studies, University of Sheffield 45 Victoria Street Sheffield S3 7QB www.sheffieldphoenix.com All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage or retrieval system, without the publishers’ permission in writing. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Typeset by Forthcoming Publications Printed by Lightning Source ISBN 978-1-909697-83-6 CONTENTS List of Contributors vii Abbreviations ix Introduction: The Antipodean Underside of Sexuality, Ideology and the Bible xi Robert J. Myles THE PERFECT PENIS OF EDEN AND QUEER TIME IN AUGUSTINE’S READING OF PAUL 1 Deane Galbraith ‘COME UPON HER’: LAND AS RAPED IN JEREMIAH 6.1-8 20 Emily Colgan IMAGINING THE BODY OF CHRIST 35 Christina Petterson THE MATRIARCH’S MUFF 56 Roland Boer PAUL SPEAKS LIKE A GIRL: WHEN PHOEBE READS ROMANS 69 Alan H. Cadwallader ‘WE’RE HERE, WE’RE QUEER–GET USED TO IT!’: EXCLAMATIONS IN THE MARGINS (EUODIA AND SYNTYCHE IN PHILIPPIANS 4.2) 95 Gillian Townsley vi Contents QUEER[Y]ING THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT 114 Elaine M. Wainwright PROMETHEA’S SONG OF SONGS 131 Yael Klangwisan THE DELILAH MONOLOGUES 144 Caroline Blyth and Teguh Wijaya Mulya RESPONSE: QUEERING THE ANTIPODES 163 Hugh S. Pyper Index of References 179 Index of Authors 182 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Caroline Blyth is Lecturer in Hebrew Bible and Religious Studies in the School of Humanities at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of The Narrative of Rape in Genesis 34: Interpreting Dinah’s Silence (Oxford University Press, 2010) and also co-edits the journal The Bible and Critical Theory. Roland Boer is a research professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia, where he directs the Religion, Marxism and Secularism program, and professor of Literary Theory at Renmin University of China, Beijing. Among numerous publications, the most recent are The Sacred Economy of Ancient Israel (WJK, 2015) and In the Vale of Tears: On Marxism and Theology, volume 5 (Brill, 2014). Alan H. Cadwallader is Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies at the Australian Catholic University, Australia. He is the author of Beyond the Word of a Woman: Recovering the Bodies of the Syrophoenician Women (ATF, 2008), Fragments of Colossae (ATF, 2015) and editor of Colossae in Space and Time (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011). Emily Colgan has a PhD in Hebrew Bible from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She also lectures in Biblical Studies at the University of Auckland. Deane Galbraith lectures in Religion at the University of Otago, New Zealand and is a founding editor of the reception history journal Relegere: Studies in Religion and Reception. Yael Klangwisan is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Practice at Laidlaw College, Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of Jouissance: A Cixousian Encounter with the Song of Songs (Sheffield Phoenix, 2015) and Earthing the Cosmic Queen: Relevance Theory and the Song of Songs (Pickwick, 2014). viii Sexuality, Ideology and the Bible Teguh Wijaya Mulya is a PhD candidate in the School of Critical Studies in Education at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He also lectures in the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Surabaya, Indonesia. Robert J. Myles is Lecturer in New Testament and Religious Studies in the School of Humanities at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is the author of The Homeless Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew (Sheffield Phoenix, 2014) and also co-edits the journal The Bible and Critical Theory. Christina Petterson is Research Associate in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is the author of The Missionary, the Catechist and the Hunter: Foucault, Protestantism and Colonialism (Brill, 2014) and Acts of Empire: The Acts of the Apostles and Imperial Ideology (Chung Yuan Christian University Press, 2012). Hugh S. Pyper is Professor of Biblical Interpretation at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. He is the author of a number of books on the Hebrew Bible including The Unchained Bible: Cultural Appropri- ations of Biblical Texts (T. & T. Clark, 2014). Gillian Townsley has a PhD in New Testament from the University of Otago, New Zealand. She is the Chaplain and Religious Education teacher at St Hilda's Collegiate School, Dunedin, New Zealand and lectures in Biblical Studies at the University of Otago. She is the author of The Straight Mind in Corinth: Queer Readings across 1 Cor 11.2-16 (SBL, forthcoming). Elaine M. Wainwright is recently retired Professor of Theology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of a number of books on the New Testament including Women Healing/Healing Women: The Genderisation of Healing in Early Christianity (Equinox, 2006). ABBREVIATIONS AB Anchor Bible ASV American Standard Version BAGD Walter Bauer, William F. Arndt, F. William Gingrich and Frederick W. Danker, A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2nd edn, 1958). BARev Biblical Archaeology Review BDB Francis Brown, S.R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (Peabody, MA: Henrickson, 2008). BibInt Biblical Interpretation: A Journal of Contemporary Approaches BTB Biblical Theology Bulletin CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly C. du. ep. Pel Augustine, Contra duas epistolas Pelagianorum [A Treatise against Two Letters of the Pelagians] C. Iul. imp. Augustine, Contra Julianum opus imperfectum [Unfinished Work against Julian] CIL Corpus inscriptionum latinarum Conf. Augustine, The Confessions De civ.Dei Augustine, De civitate Dei [The City of God] De Gen.ad litt Augustine, De Genesi ad litteram [The Literal Meaning of Genesis] De gr. et pecc. Augustine, De gratia Christi, et de peccato originali [On the Grace of Christ, and On Original Sin] De nup.et conc. Augustine, De nuptiis et concupiscentia [On Marriage and Concupiscence] De pecc. mer. Augustine, De peccatorum meritis et remissione et de baptismo parvulorum [A Treatise on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of Infants] FemTh Feminist Theology HS Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, Haupt Schriften [Main Writings] (unpublished handwritten manuscripts) ICC International Critical Commentary IG Inscriptiones graecae JBL Journal of Biblical Literature JFSR Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion JHD Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, Jüngerhaus Diarium (unpublished, handwritten community diary) JSB Jewish Study Bible JSNT Journal for the Study of the New Testament x Sexuality, Ideology and the Bible JSNTSup Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Supplement Series JSOT Journal for the Study of the Old Testament KJV King James Version LCL Loeb Classical Library NDIEC New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity (ed. G.H. R. Horsley and S. Llewelyn; North Ryde, NSW: Ancient History Documentary Research Centre, Macquarie University, 1981–). NET New English Translation NIV New International Version NJB New Jerusalem Bible NRSV New Revised Standard Version NTS New Testament Studies OTL Old Testament Library POxy The Oxyrhynchus Papyri RSV Revised Standard Version SEG Supplementum epigraphicum graecum TheolSex Theology and Sexuality TTod Theology Today TynBul Tyndale Bulletin VC Vigiliae christianae WBC Word Biblical Commentary ZAW Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
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