Appalling Bodies

Acknowledgments Prelude: Before and After Romosexuality Queer Reconfigurations Past Paul After This Before Chapter One: Touching Figures: Reaching Past Paul Between Brooten and a Halperin Place How to Get Stuck in "the Middle" with Sedgwick and Butler Toward Some Touching Connections? Chapter Two: A Close Corinthian Shave: Trans / Androgyne Corinthian Citations, Pauline Performativity, and Echoes of Androgyny Ancient Androgyny, Reconsidered Hair-Raising Androgyny and the Corinthian Assembly? Transgender and Other Mobilizations of Masculinity Resembling and Assembling Female (Masculine) Prophets Chapter Three: Uncut Galatians: Intersex / Eunuch "They tried to write their Gospel on my body": Defining, Treating, Resisting An Ancient Pal, Against Genital Cutting? A Cutting Joke Facing the Phallus, Cutting to the Fore(skin) "Don't Quote Ovid to Me" (and Don't Bother with Paul Either?) Conclusion Chapter Four: Use: Bottom / Slave The Use of Slaves The Use of Onesimus: Chresis and Consent, Puns and Patrons Switching Biblical Bonds Other Uses of History How Not to Race Past Attending to the Past Whipping Through Time Chapter Five: Assembled Gentiles: Terrorist / Barbarian Exceptional Sexual The Epistles' Exceptionalism Barbarians, Among Other Perverse Figures Exceptionalism Rules An Unexceptional Paul Some Alternative Assembly Required Analogy, Anachronism, Assembly: A Contingent Conclusion Epilogue: Biblical Drag Bibliography Indexes