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Zusatztext 'The volume is tightly argued and well reasoned and the book is penned with humour...the book could be described - methodologically! ideologically! and stylistically - as roguish. And quite delightfully so.' --The Bible and Critical Theory'Stuart Macwilliam writes with charm and a high degree of epistemological and methodological awareness.' --Review of Biblical Literature Informationen zum Autor Stuart Macwilliam is a lecturer in the Department of Theology at the University of Exeter. He teaches Biblical Hebrew and New Testament Greek! and continues to develop his research interest in queer theory and the Hebrew Bible! working at present on such diverse topics as male beauty! Queen Athaliah and eunuchs. Klappentext Using queer theory and building on feminist biblical scholarship! Queer Theory and the Prophetic Marriage Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible critiques the heteronormativity of the marriage metaphor in the Hebrew Bible! with particular reference to Jeremiah 2-3! Hosea 1-3 and Ezekiel 16 and 23. Zusammenfassung The Hebrew Bible offers a metaphor of marriage that portrays men and women as complementary, each with their distinct and 'natural' roles Introduction Section I Methodological Foundations Chapter 1: Queer Theory Chapter 2: Feminist and Queer Biblical Encounters Section II Queer and Metaphor Chapter 3 A Queer Theory of Metaphor Chapter 4: Are the Israelites Male? Chapter 5: Queering Jeremiah Chapter 6: Queering Hosea Chapter 7: Queering Ezekiel, Part 1 Entr'Acte: An Orgy of the Ego: Reflections on the Methodology of Section III Section III Queer and Camp Chapter 8: The Methodological Possibility of Camp Chapter 9: Queering Ezekiel, Part 2 Chapter 10: Conclusions
