Description: 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, and class. Not only has Luke failed to resolve these ambiguities; he has positioned this destabilized figure at a key place in the narrative - as the gospel has expanded beyond Judea, but before Gentiles are explicitly named - in such a way as to blur a number of social role boundaries. In this sense, Burke argues, Luke intended to "queer" his reader's expectations and so to present the boundary-transgressing potentiality of a new community.
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EAN: 9781451465655
UPC: 9781451465655
ISBN: 9781451465655
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Item Height: 1.1 cm
Book Title: Queering the Ethiopian Eunuch : Strategies of Ambiguity in Acts
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Topic: Biblical Studies / Jesus, the Gospels & Acts, Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament, Biblical Studies / New Testament
Publication Year: 2013
Genre: Religion
Item Weight: 11.2 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Sean D. Burke
Item Width: 6 in
Book Series: Emerging Scholars Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
