Bodies on the verge : queering Pauline Epistles / edited by Joseph A. Marchal.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

On the verge of an introduction / Joseph A. Marchal -- Wasting time at the end of the world : queer failure, unproductivity, and unintelligibility in 1 Corinthians / Lindsey Guy -- Be even better subjects, worthy of rehabilitation : homonationalism in 1 Thessalonians 4-5 / James N. Hoke -- Monstrous bodies in Paul's letter to the Galatians / Valérie Nicolet -- A little porneia leavens the whole : queer(ing) limits of community in 1 Corinthians 5 / Midori E. Hartman -- "A slave to all" : the queerness of Paul's slave form / Tyler M. Schwaller -- Dionysus, disidentifications, and wandering Pauline epiphanies / Timothy Luckritz Marquis -- Bottoming out : rethinking the reception of receptivity / Joseph A. Marchal -- Pauline anthropology as system and the problem of Romans 1 / Benjamin H. Dunning -- Stranger in a stranger world : queering Paul with Michel Faber's The book of strange new things / Jay Twomey -- How Paul became the straight word : Protestant biblicism and the twentieth-century invention of biblical heteronormativity / Heather R. White -- Responses -- Interpreting as queer or interpreting queerly? / Lynn R. Huber -- Getting to the bottom of Paul's letters, or getting real with biblical studies? / Tat-siong Benny Liew -- Survival and the nonetheless / Will Stockton.

"Interpretation of Paul's letters often proves troubling, since people frequently cite them when debating controversial matters of gender and sexuality. Rather than focusing on the more common defensive responses to those expected prooftexts that supposedly address homosexuality, the essays in this collection reflect the range, rigor, vitality, and creativity of other interpretive options influenced by queer studies. Thus key concepts and practices for understanding these letters in terms of history, theology, empire, gender, race, and ethnicity, among others, are rethought through queer interventions within both ancient settings and more recent history and literature"-- Provided by publisher.

Joseph A. Marchal is Associate Professor of Religious Studies (and affiliate faculty in Women's and Gender Studies) at Ball State University.

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