Thomas D. Hanks Robert Jewett (2006) and Robert Gagnon (2001) and other scholars on Romans 1:16 - 2:16 CLICK HERE for the paper in full A paper to be presented at the AARSBL 2007 Annual Meeting (American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature) San Diego, California November 17, 2007 A Gay Apostle’s Queer Epistle for a Peculiar People: Romans 1:16-2:16 A Review of Robert Jewett (2007) and other recent scholarship on Romans 1:16-2:16 [Robert Jewett, Romans. Hermeneia. Minneapolis: Fortress; 2006:148-218] thanks@wamani.apc.org (Buenos Aires, after Dec. 1) |
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| Index-Outline Note: This outline has been slightly revised; see first page of paper for revision of this outline Translation 1:16-2:16 Good News for oppressed slaves; bad news for idolatrous oppressors Introduction: 4 elements deconstructed; 1 normative element (for slaves) Context: Historical and literary Scope of pericope (1:16-32): persons described: Gentiles, Jews, all humanity? 1:16-17 + 18 Good News for the oppressed, bad news for idolatrous oppressors 1:23,25 “They ex/changed”: idolatry (3x) 26 unnatural sex (1x) + 27 “leaving”: unnatural sex (1x) 1:24,26,28 “God handed them over”: mythico-historical categories (Adam, Sodom, Sinai, “Solomon”?) 1:18-23, 25 1:24, 26-27 Idolatry Sexual “impurity/uncleanness” deconstruction (14: 14,20) 1:24 Countryman (1988; 2003) on sexual uncleanness and “all things clean” (14:14,20) 1:26 Not referring to lesbians (Church fathers, James Miller et al, pace Jewett) 1:24, 26-27 From shame and dishonor (3x: Moxnes and Jewett) boasting (5:2- 3,11) 1:26-27 From “un/natural” sexual acts to Paul’s deconstruction 11:20, 24 1:27 Jewett’s translation: 3 controversial features 1:27e The “error” of idolatry and the payback of male effeminzation (Swancutt) 2:1-16 Paul’s rhetorical trap sprung: from rhetoric to theology to “ethics” to mission Two Hermeneutical Horizons: Gagnon’s Holy War against homosexuals vs Paul’s mission to Spain (Jewett). Patriarchy (male chauvinism) and slave society new knowledge (sexual orientations) Jewett on sexual exploitation of slaves vs. Gagnon on “mutuality” and “complimentarity” Summary: Jewett and Gagnon on Romans Seven Conclusions: Rom 1:18-2:16 (esp 1:24-27) Excursus Romans 1:26 and the late patristic invention of “lesbophobic” misinterpretations Appendix 1 Robert Gagnon’s contribution (from lemon to eschatological lemonade) Appendix 2 Heterosexism/Homophobia in recent studies of Romans Bibliographies CLICK HERE for the paper in full |
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"I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. I must bring them also."
John 10:16 NRSV
John 10:16 NRSV
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