Table Of ContentSEXUALITY, IDEOLOGY AND THE BIBLE
The Bible in the Modern World, 70
Series Editors
David J.A. Clines, J. Cheryl Exum, Jorunn Økland, Stephen D. Moore
Editorial Board
Alison Jasper, Tat-siong Benny Liew, Caroline Vander Stichele
Sheffield Studies in the Bible and Culture, 1
Series Editor
Katie B. Edwards
S , I B
EXUALITY DEOLOGY AND THE IBLE
ANTIPODEAN ENGAGEMENTS
Edited by
Robert J. Myles
and
Caroline Blyth
SHEFFIELD PHOENIX PRESS
2015
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CONTENTS
List of Contributors vii
Abbreviations ix
Introduction: The Antipodean Underside of Sexuality,
Ideology and the Bible xi
Robert J. Myles
THE PERFECT PENIS OF EDEN AND QUEER TIME
IN AUGUSTINE’S READING OF PAUL 1
Deane Galbraith
‘COME UPON HER’:
LAND AS RAPED IN JEREMIAH 6.1-8 20
Emily Colgan
IMAGINING THE BODY OF CHRIST 35
Christina Petterson
THE MATRIARCH’S MUFF 56
Roland Boer
PAUL SPEAKS LIKE A GIRL: WHEN PHOEBE READS ROMANS 69
Alan H. Cadwallader
‘WE’RE HERE, WE’RE QUEER–GET USED TO IT!’:
EXCLAMATIONS IN THE MARGINS
(EUODIA AND SYNTYCHE IN PHILIPPIANS 4.2) 95
Gillian Townsley
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QUEER[Y]ING THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT 114
Elaine M. Wainwright
PROMETHEA’S SONG OF SONGS 131
Yael Klangwisan
THE DELILAH MONOLOGUES 144
Caroline Blyth and Teguh Wijaya Mulya
RESPONSE: QUEERING THE ANTIPODES 163
Hugh S. Pyper
Index of References 179
Index of Authors 182
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Caroline Blyth is Lecturer in Hebrew Bible and Religious Studies in the
School of Humanities at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
She is the author of The Narrative of Rape in Genesis 34: Interpreting
Dinah’s Silence (Oxford University Press, 2010) and also co-edits the
journal The Bible and Critical Theory.
Roland Boer is a research professor at the University of Newcastle,
Australia, where he directs the Religion, Marxism and Secularism
program, and professor of Literary Theory at Renmin University of
China, Beijing. Among numerous publications, the most recent are
The Sacred Economy of Ancient Israel (WJK, 2015) and In the Vale of
Tears: On Marxism and Theology, volume 5 (Brill, 2014).
Alan H. Cadwallader is Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies at the
Australian Catholic University, Australia. He is the author of Beyond
the Word of a Woman: Recovering the Bodies of the Syrophoenician
Women (ATF, 2008), Fragments of Colossae (ATF, 2015) and editor of
Colossae in Space and Time (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011).
Emily Colgan has a PhD in Hebrew Bible from the University of
Auckland, New Zealand. She also lectures in Biblical Studies at the
University of Auckland.
Deane Galbraith lectures in Religion at the University of Otago, New
Zealand and is a founding editor of the reception history journal
Relegere: Studies in Religion and Reception.
Yael Klangwisan is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Practice at
Laidlaw College, Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of
Jouissance: A Cixousian Encounter with the Song of Songs (Sheffield
Phoenix, 2015) and Earthing the Cosmic Queen: Relevance Theory and
the Song of Songs (Pickwick, 2014).
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Teguh Wijaya Mulya is a PhD candidate in the School of Critical
Studies in Education at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
He also lectures in the Faculty of Psychology at the University of
Surabaya, Indonesia.
Robert J. Myles is Lecturer in New Testament and Religious Studies in
the School of Humanities at the University of Auckland, New
Zealand. He is the author of The Homeless Jesus in the Gospel of
Matthew (Sheffield Phoenix, 2014) and also co-edits the journal The
Bible and Critical Theory.
Christina Petterson is Research Associate in the School of Humanities
and Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is
the author of The Missionary, the Catechist and the Hunter: Foucault,
Protestantism and Colonialism (Brill, 2014) and Acts of Empire: The Acts
of the Apostles and Imperial Ideology (Chung Yuan Christian University
Press, 2012).
Hugh S. Pyper is Professor of Biblical Interpretation at the University
of Sheffield, United Kingdom. He is the author of a number of books
on the Hebrew Bible including The Unchained Bible: Cultural Appropri-
ations of Biblical Texts (T. & T. Clark, 2014).
Gillian Townsley has a PhD in New Testament from the University of
Otago, New Zealand. She is the Chaplain and Religious Education
teacher at St Hilda's Collegiate School, Dunedin, New Zealand and
lectures in Biblical Studies at the University of Otago. She is the
author of The Straight Mind in Corinth: Queer Readings across 1 Cor
11.2-16 (SBL, forthcoming).
Elaine M. Wainwright is recently retired Professor of Theology at the
University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of a number
of books on the New Testament including Women Healing/Healing
Women: The Genderisation of Healing in Early Christianity (Equinox,
2006).
ABBREVIATIONS
AB Anchor Bible
ASV American Standard Version
BAGD Walter Bauer, William F. Arndt, F. William Gingrich and
Frederick W. Danker, A Greek–English Lexicon of the New
Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 2nd edn, 1958).
BARev Biblical Archaeology Review
BDB Francis Brown, S.R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs, A Hebrew and
English Lexicon of the Old Testament (Peabody, MA: Henrickson,
2008).
BibInt Biblical Interpretation: A Journal of Contemporary Approaches
BTB Biblical Theology Bulletin
CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly
C. du. ep. Pel Augustine, Contra duas epistolas Pelagianorum [A Treatise against
Two Letters of the Pelagians]
C. Iul. imp. Augustine, Contra Julianum opus imperfectum [Unfinished Work
against Julian]
CIL Corpus inscriptionum latinarum
Conf. Augustine, The Confessions
De civ.Dei Augustine, De civitate Dei [The City of God]
De Gen.ad litt Augustine, De Genesi ad litteram [The Literal Meaning of Genesis]
De gr. et pecc. Augustine, De gratia Christi, et de peccato originali [On the Grace of
Christ, and On Original Sin]
De nup.et conc. Augustine, De nuptiis et concupiscentia [On Marriage and
Concupiscence]
De pecc. mer. Augustine, De peccatorum meritis et remissione et de baptismo
parvulorum [A Treatise on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on
the Baptism of Infants]
FemTh Feminist Theology
HS Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, Haupt Schriften [Main Writings]
(unpublished handwritten manuscripts)
ICC International Critical Commentary
IG Inscriptiones graecae
JBL Journal of Biblical Literature
JFSR Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion
JHD Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, Jüngerhaus Diarium (unpublished,
handwritten community diary)
JSB Jewish Study Bible
JSNT Journal for the Study of the New Testament
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JSNTSup Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Supplement Series
JSOT Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
KJV King James Version
LCL Loeb Classical Library
NDIEC New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity (ed. G.H.
R. Horsley and S. Llewelyn; North Ryde, NSW: Ancient History
Documentary Research Centre, Macquarie University, 1981–).
NET New English Translation
NIV New International Version
NJB New Jerusalem Bible
NRSV New Revised Standard Version
NTS New Testament Studies
OTL Old Testament Library
POxy The Oxyrhynchus Papyri
RSV Revised Standard Version
SEG Supplementum epigraphicum graecum
TheolSex Theology and Sexuality
TTod Theology Today
TynBul Tyndale Bulletin
VC Vigiliae christianae
WBC Word Biblical Commentary
ZAW Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
