
Queer Readings of the Centurion at Capernaum
Their History and Politics
Christopher B. Zeichmann(Author)
Society of Biblical Literature (Publisher)
Published on 14. October 2022
Book
Hardback
324 pages
978-1-62837-455-1 (ISBN)
Description
Since the 1950s, homoerotic readings of the pericope in which Jesus heals a Roman centurion's slave have been built upon the specific Greek word pais, which can refer to youth, slave, or the junior partner in a sexual relationship between two men; Luke's characterization of the young man as "dear" (entimos) to the centurion; and commonplace homoeroticism in the Roman army. In this book Christopher B. Zeichmann traces shifts in queer readings of the text and the influences of the sexual, political, and theological discourses of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Atlanta
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
678 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62837-455-1 (9781628374551)
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