Queering the Prophet

On Jonah, and Other Activists

L. Juliana M. Claassens,Steed Vernyl Davidson,Charlene van der Walt,Ashwin Thyssen

• Editorial: SCM Press
• Año: 2023
• ISBN:
  9780334065159
• Categoría: Teología y religión
• Categoría: Crítica e interpretación bíblicas

What does it mean to be a prophet in queer times? Considering first the queerness of the prophet Jonah, this volume then broadens its scope to the queer prophetic in our own time, reflecting on what makes a prophet 'queer', and considering how public theology is itself, an example of the queer prophetic. With a broad range of international contributors, this book offers a bold and essential new addition to queer biblical studies literature.

Índice

• Copyright information
• Contents
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Queering Jonah and Other Activists
• Part 1: Queering the Prophet Jonah
• 1. These Are the Days of Raw Despondence: Finding a Queer Kindred in the Book of Jonah
• 2. Prophecy and Consent: The Case of Jonah
• 3. Under a Desert Plant: Queer Heterotopias in Jonah
• 4. ‘When the World No Longer Appears the Right Way Up’: Queering Time, Space and the Prophetic Body in Jonah 2
• 5. Queering Memories of Nineveh as ‘Great City’ in the Book of Jonah: Challenging Presuppositions of Power in Post-exilic Yehud
• 6. Queering the Straight Jonah – A Reception-Exegetical Exploration
• 7. Would Vishnu Save Jonah’s Poor Fishie? A Transtextual Query
• Part 2: Becoming Queer Prophets
• 8. Queering the Prophetic Process: From Jonah to the Ujamaa Centre’s CBS on Galatians
• 9. On the Public Intellectual as Queer Prophet: Considering the Activism of Zethu Matebeni and Charlene van der Walt
• 10. Becoming a Queer Prophet: Desmond Tutu, Embodiment and Speaking Out for LGBTIQA+ Equality
• 11. What Makes a Queer Prophet? Charisma, Authority and Counter-Knowledges in the Ministry of a Kenyan Intersex Apostle
• 12. Queering the Circumcision Covenant: Transgender Identity in Genesis 17
• 13. Queering the Publics: Reflections on Truth by Prophetic Practitioners
• 14. Womanist Biblical Interpretation’s Prophetic Potential