TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burke,Sean D.
TI  - Queering the Ethiopian Eunuch: Strategies of Ambiguity in Acts
T2  - Emerging Scholars
SN  - 9781451469882
AV  - BS511.3 .Q843 2013 
U1  - 220.608664 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Fortress Press
KW  - Bible
KW  - Acts
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://ulsem.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://muse.jhu.edu/book/27357
ER  -