Practicing Safer Texts, Food, Sex and Bible in Queer Perspective: Revised Edition (Sexing Scripture: Gender, Sex and Sexuality in Scriptural Traditions and Worlds)

In this revised edition of his classic work, Ken Stone uses the ubiquitous comparison between food and sex as a framework for a queer reading of key texts.Stone reflects on these texts in an interdisciplinary fashion, with the help of traditional tools of biblical scholarship alongside less traditional tools such as Queer studies and cultural anthropology. By utilizing a reading lens that relates food and sex to one another intentionally, rather than treating them separately, Stone questions the tendency of readers to overstress the gravity of sexual matters in relation to other topics of potential ethical, theological, exegetical and cultural concern.As the title Practising Safer Texts indicates, Stone also proposes a pragmatic approach to biblical interpretation that uses strategies of "safer sex" as a loose model. This revised edition features a new chapter that highlights the relevance of this impactful work today.This chapter explores Genesis 1:28 and 1:29, the role of childbirth