The Bible, Gender, and Sexuality: Critical Readings

This volume collects the most important and cutting-edge readings related to gender, sex, sexuality and the Bible. Engaging the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and surrounding texts and worlds, Rhiannon Graybill and Lynn Huber have amassed a selection of essays that reflects a wide-range of perspectives and approaches towards gender and sexuality. Presented in three distinct parts, this collection begins with an examination of gender/s in and around biblical contexts, before moving to discussing sex and sexualities, and finally critiques of gender and sexuality.

Each section features key readings both from the history of scholarship and more contemporary, cutting-edge studies; and each are introduced by Graybill and Huber in order to situate the readings in their broader scholarly contexts. Culminating with an annotated list of further readings to point researchers towards further engagements with these key themes, the collection provide vital understanding to a crucial topic both in biblical studies and in current debates about religion.