GOSS (ed): Take Back The Word

Goss, Robert (ed)

Take Back the Word

2000

239 pages

Christian, Scripture, LGBT

"Perhaps the most revolutionary contribution of this volume is in its presentation of new and resistant practices of reading the Bible that challenge some of the prevailing "authorized" patterns of reading that allow the Bible to "clobber" oppressed people...If lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender, and seeking people are to take back this word for themselves, they must take it back in a new way"

Contents:

Foreword

Introduction

Part 1: QUEER STRATEGIES FOR READING

1. Reading the Bible from Low and Outside: Lesbitransgay People as God's Tricksters

- Virginia Ramey Mollenkott

2. Camping Around the Canon: Humour as a Hermeneutical Tool in Queer Readings of Biblical Texts

- Elisabeth Stuart

3. Love Your Mother: A Lesbian Womanist rEading of Scripture

- Irene S. Travis

4. Eating the Crumbs That Fall from the Table: Trusting the Abundance of God

- Justin Tanis

Part 2: TAKING BACK THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES

5. The Garden of Eden and the Heterosexual Contract

- Ken Stone

6. Outsiders, Aliens and Boundary Crossers: A Queer Reading of the Hebrew Exodus

- Mona West

7. When and Where I Enter, Then the Whole Race Enters with Me: Que(e)rying Exodus

- Irene Monroe

8. The Book of Ruth: On Boundaries, Love, and Truth.

- Celena M. Duncan

9. Throwing a Party: Patriarchy, Gender, and the Death of Jezbel

- Victoria S. Kolakowski

10. Nehemiah as a Queer Model for Servant Leadership

- Michael S. Piazza

11. A Modern Psalm in the Midst of Breast Cancer

- Irene S Travis

12. A Love as Fierce as Death: Reclaiming the Song of Songs for Queer Love

- Chrisopher King

13. Insider Out: Unmasking the Abusing God

- Dawn Robinson Rose

14. Ezekial understands ADIS: AIDS Understands Ezekiel. or Reading the Bible with HIV

- Jim Mitulski

15. A Queer Reading of the Book of Jonah

- Sharon Bezner

16. Do Justice, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly: Reflections on Micah and Gay Ethics

- Rebecca T. Alpert

Part 3. TAKING BACK THE CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES

17. Matthew and Mary of Magdala: Good News for Sex Workers

- Thomas Hanks

18. Coming Out, Lazarus's and Ours: queer Reflections of a Psycospiritual, Political Journey

- Benjamin Perkins

19. The Belove Disciple: A Queer Bereavement Narrative ina Time of AIDS

- Robert E. Goss

20. "And Then He Kissed Me": An Easter Love Story

- James Martin

21. "To Cut or Not to Cut": Is Compulsory Heterosexuality a Prerquisite for Christianity?

- Thomas Bohache