Practicing Safer Texts: Food, Sex and Bible in Queer Perspective

by Ken Stone

Book Overview

This book uses the ubiquitous comparison between food and sex as a framework for examining a number of texts from the Hebrew Bible, as well as later readings of those texts and interpretive issues raised by the texts. A range of biblical texts in which both food and sex appear are analyzed in an interdisciplinary fashion with the help of both traditional tools of biblical scholarship and less traditional tools such as Queer studies and cultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567081729
• ISBN13: 9780567081728
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"