Queering the Ethiopian Eunuch : Strategies of Ambiguity in Acts.
Material type: TextSeries: Emerging scholarsPublication details: Lanham : Fortress Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (203 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781451469882
- 1451469888
- 220.608664
- BS511.3 .Q843 2013
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E-resource | ULS E-Resources ULS E-resource | Project Muse Phl. and Rel. 2014 | BS511.3 .Q843 2013 | Available | ocn852757974 |
Print version record.
Queering the Ethiopian Eunuch; Contents; Introduction; The Meaning of Eunuch; Queer Theory; Ancient Masculinities; Eunuchs; Queering Acts; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index of Names; Index of Biblical References and Ancient Literature.
Were eunuchs more usually castrated guardians of the harem, as florid Orientalist portraits imagine them, or were they trusted court officials who may never have been castrated? Was the Ethiopian eunuch a Jew or a Gentile, a slave or a free man? Why does Luke call him a "man" while contemporaries referred to eunuchs as "unmanned" beings? As Sean D. Burke treats questions that have received dramatically different answers over the centuries of Christian interpretation, he shows that eunuchs bore particular stereotyped associations regarding gender and sexual status as well as of race, ethnicity.
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